coffin

IPA: kˈɔfɪn

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.
(obsolete) 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.
(mining, obsolete) An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
(by extension) A deep ditch.
A surname.

Examples of "coffin" in Sentences

In Blake, the coffin is his "Printing House in Hell"
Dracula decides to leave and go on vacation to New York City, but his coffin is accidentally sent to Harlem.
The nail in your coffin is the arbitration system run by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
At the head of the coffin is a great white turban of the old pattern, covered with a dark green and silver scarf.
Ill say it again, the person in the coffin is the person that takes them off the island, and the first person we will see next season.
Also in the coffin is a small bag of commemorative medals issued over the course of his pontificate and a sealed document with a description of the pope's life, in Latin.
But their grandmother said there was too much dew on the grass for them to go down through the meadows that morning; so they borrowed a piece of black cambric from Sally, and spread it over the little box, which they called the coffin; and Frank darkened the windows, as he remembered they had done when his mother died.
The difference is that the Spanish Inquisition was willing to torture using methods that leave marks on the body, while the US chose to use methods that do not cut the skin: cold rooms; sleep deprivation through noise and bright lights; forced standing; “stress positions;” smashing people into wooden walls (not into concrete, which breaks bones); confinement in coffin-like boxes; and the water torture. southpaw says: