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Coffer   /kˈɔfər/   Listen
noun
Coffer  n.  
1.
A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. "In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns."
2.
Fig.: Treasure or funds; usually in the plural. "He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake." "Hold, here is half my coffer."
3.
(Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
4.
(Fort.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
5.
The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary.
Coffer fish. (Zool.) See Cowfish.


verb
Coffer  v. t.  
1.
To put into a coffer.
2.
(Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
3.
To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.





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"Coffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... favour only by paying court to Mme. Bethmann. This time I preferred once more to appeal to my family for help, and therefore travelled to Rudolstadt through Leipzig, where, to the sad astonishment of my mother, I had to replenish my coffer with the necessary supplies. On the way to Leipzig I had travelled with Apel through his estate, he having fetched me from Lauchstadt for the purpose. His arrival was fixed in my memory by a noisy banquet which my wealthy friend gave at the hotel in my ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... reds and blues throwing the gold into relief. Scenes taken from mythology were done in what was known as "pastille," composition work raised and painted on a gold background. On one fifteenth century marriage coffer, Bacchus and Ariadne were shown in their triumphal car drawn by winged griffins, a young Bacchante driving them on. Another coffer decorated in the same manner had as decoration "The Rape ...
— Woman as Decoration • Emily Burbank
... eggs on the coral banks also make an item in the blacks' bill of fare; while the frantic little fish hustled towards the shore are captured by the million in coffer-dams made of loosely twisted grass and ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... darkening the room like a cloud; but she stood in their midst in a trailing garment of pure white, and in her bosom was a bright red rose tied with a knot of scarlet ribband, whose ends fell floating. Her woman was upon her knees before a coffer in which she was laying the weeds ...
— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... demand the king gave assent as soon as the peace was sworn. He was quite satisfied to go to Liege and with a small or large escort, just as the duke preferred. This answer pleased the duke immensely. In was brought the treaty, out of the king's coffer was taken the piece of the true cross, the very one carried by Saint Charlemagne, called the Cross of Victory, and thereupon the two ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam


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