Definition of coffer

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Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam..

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Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
Cofferer :: Cofferer (n.) One who keeps treasures in a coffer.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Mocker :: Mocker (n.) One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider..
Cowfish :: Cowfish (n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish..
Cellaret :: Cellaret (n.) A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal..
Ark :: Ark (n.) A chest, or coffer..
Cofferwork :: Cofferwork (n.) Rubblework faced with stone.
Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..
Derider :: Derider (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer..
Scoffer :: Scoffer (n.) One who scoffs.
Cofferdam :: Cofferdam (n.) A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..
Ciborium :: Ciborium (n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.
Upspurner :: Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.
Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To put into a coffer.
Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A cofferdam.
Jeerer :: Jeerer (n.) A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch..
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