coffin
/ˈkɔfɪn/ noun B1- A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
- The eighth Lenormand card.
- The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
- A storage container for nuclear waste.
- A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
Plural coffins
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In the parlor lay Matthew Cuthbert in his coffin, his long gray hair framing his placid face on which there was a little kindly smile as if he but slept, dreaming pleasant dreams.
Five corridors diverged like the rays of a star, and the walls, dug into niches, which were arranged one above the other in the shape of coffins, showed that they were at last in the catacombs.
I had him put into a leaden coffin, and I am preceding him by a few days.”
de Villefort’s door, and the coffin removed into it from the post-wagon.
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