coffin

Meanings

Plural: coffins

Noun

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
The eighth Lenormand card.
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
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.
An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
A deep ditch.

Verb

place into a coffin
- "her body was coffined"
To place in a coffin.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.

Synonyms

casket, encoffin, pine box, wooden coat, wooden kimono, wooden overcoat, wooden surtout

Scrabble Score: 14

coffin is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
coffin is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
coffin is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

coffin is a valid Words With Friends word