English Dictionary

coffin

/ˈkɒfɪn/

noun

A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial. / (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card. / (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

The coffin was carried by six pallbearers.

意味（1）

A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.

意味（2）

(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.

意味（3）

(archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

Of the paste a coffin I will rear.

意味（4）

(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.

意味（5）

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

意味（6）

A storage container for nuclear waste.