coffin

Definition of Coffin in English :

1. casket, coffin

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

2. coffin

place into a coffin

Example Sentences:
'her body was coffined'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Coffin

noun

1.

a box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

2.

the part of a horse's foot that contains the coffin bone

verb

3. (transitive)

to place in or as in a coffin

4. engineering another name for flask (sense 6)

noun

1.

the case or box in which a dead body is buried

2.

the horny part of a horse's hoof

verb transitive

3.

to put into or as if into a coffin

n.

1. An oblong box in which a corpse is buried.

2. The horny part of a horse's hoof.

tr.v. cof·fined, cof·fin·ing, cof·fins

To place in or as if in a coffin.