Thesaurus: coffer

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1. n. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
2. n. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
3. n. A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
4. 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.
5. n. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
6. v. t. To put into a coffer.
7. v. t. To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
8. v. t. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
9. n. an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
10. n. a chest especially for storing valuables
11. 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak. 3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. 4. (Fort.) A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. 5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish. 1. To put into a coffer. Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to turnish with a coffer or coffers.
12. A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, orportico; a caisson.