Definitions for coffer

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coffer cof·fer

Spelling: [kaw-fer, kof-er]

IPA: /ˈkɔ fər, ˈkɒf ər/

Coffer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in coffer (ceffor).

Definitions for coffer

noun

1. a box or chest, especially one for valuables.
2. coffers, a treasury; funds:
3. any of various boxlike enclosures, as a cofferdam.
4. Also called caisson, lacunar. Architecture. one of a number of sunken panels, usually square or octagonal, in a vault, ceiling, or soffit.

verb (used with object)

1. to deposit or lay up in or as in a coffer or chest.
2. to ornament with coffers or sunken panels.

Origin of coffer

1250-1300; Middle English cofre Old French ≪ Latin cophinus basket; see coffin

Examples for coffer

Then he ordered the coffer to be opened, and told her all that had happened.

So that man packed away all his cattle for him in the coffer.

coffer cut with ledges and catch-holes for a lid, like other sarcophagi.

Thus a coffer dam was formed to receive the concrete as shown in Fig. 34.

Please you, Mistress, there was nought but that in the coffer.

How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?

The old man pressed the little book to his lips and concealed it in his coffer.

For his own coffer he extracted a fiveweight and slipped it into his boot top.

A fourth time he advanced, trembling, and seized the lid of the coffer.

How had her body come to be in the coffer, he wondered, when all the others were—gone?