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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..

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..

Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables..

Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To put into a coffer.

Cleading :: Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc..

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..

Derider :: Derider (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer..

Jeerer :: Jeerer (n.) A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.

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

Ciborium :: Ciborium (n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

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..

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..

Scoffer :: Scoffer (n.) One who scoffs.

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..

Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

Upspurner :: Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.

Cofferwork :: Cofferwork (n.) Rubblework faced with stone.

Englue :: Englue (v. t.) To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued..

Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A cofferdam.

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