Definitions for Coffin

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Coffin cof·fin

Spelling: [kaw-fin, kof-in]

IPA: /ˈkɔ fɪn, ˈkɒf ɪn/

Coffin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Coffin (cffino).

Definitions for Coffin

noun

1. the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket.
2. the part of a horse's foot containing the coffin bone.
3. Printing. the bed of a platen press. the wooden frame around the bed of an early wooden press.
4. Levi, 1798–1877, U.S. abolitionist leader.
5. Robert P(eter) Tristram, 1892–1955, U.S. poet, essayist, and biographer.

verb (used with object)

1. to put or enclose in or as in a coffin.

Origin of Coffin

1300-50; Middle English cofin Old North French Latin cophinus Greek kóphinos a kind of basket

Examples for Coffin

Then they wrote her name on the coffin in gold letters and added the family name.

Well, the dwarfs took pity on him and gave him the coffin, and the prince had it carried to his castle.

Else why should the bearers stagger, as they tremulously uphold the coffin?

So he asked the dwarfs to sell him the coffin with the dead Little Snow White inside.

So Little Snow White lay in the coffin for a long, long time but did not rot.

Then he called for his servants and ordered them to throw the coffin into the Nile.

Maybe yourself and Eamon would make a coffin when the sun rises.

So he lay down in the coffin but no sooner was he inside when bang!

They left it on her breast, in the coffin, and it went with that guilty woman to the tomb.

The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.