Coffer

['kɒfə] or ['kɔfɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a chest especially for storing valuables.

(noun.) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.

克劳斯编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.

(n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

(v. t.) To put into a coffer.

(v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.

(v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

贝丝编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Money-chest, strong-box, safe.[2]. [Arch.] Sunken panel.

杜安整理

解释:

n. a chest for holding money or treasure: (pl.) the whole wealth of a person: a deep panel in a ceiling.—v.t. to hoard up.—n. Coff′erdam a water-tight structure used in engineering for excluding the water from the foundations of bridges quay walls &c. so as to allow of their being built dry.—adj. Coff′ered.

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