Coffer
['kɒfə] or ['kɔfɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a chest especially for storing valuables.
(noun.) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Money-chest, strong-box, safe.[2]. [Arch.] Sunken panel.
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Definition
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.
Typist: Ralph
Examples
- Such payments, therefore, only put into one coffer what had the moment before been taken out of another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- While it remained in the coffers of the bank, its superiority was known and ascertained. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Over and above all this, it could not be brought from those coffers, as will appear by and by, without previously paying for the keeping. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Bishop said he was glad to think that this wealth flowed into the coffers of a gentleman who accepted it with meekness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Little or no expense can ever be necessary for replenishing the coffers of such a bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Its coffers having been filled so very ill, it is said to have been driven to this resource within a very few months after it began to do business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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