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coffin::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | casket |
| Type of | box |
| Has types | sarcophagus, bier |
Examples of coffin
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Following an ambush, Paul wakes up to find himself buried alive inside a coffin.
From the sacbee.com
The coffin takes a sharp angle, part way along its length, like a crooked death.
From the guardian.co.uk
Also on show are coffin cases and other accessories for the well-furnished tomb.
From the bloomberg.com
It's the founding ideals that the flag draped over my father's coffin stand for.
From the washingtonpost.com
Teeter had looked at the mummy's coffin nearly every day over the past 19 years.
From the edition.cnn.com
He came cargo, in a silver coffin with wood handles cloaked in an American flag.
From the nytimes.com
The loyal son placed his mother's coffin at a crossroad leading to his hometown.
From the investors.com
More than 1,000 mourners filed past Gillmor's flag-draped coffin in the Rotunda.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
The children write their lessons using the lid of a coffin propped up on stones.
From the economist.com
- Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
- Place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"
- A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.
- Various obstacles are found in competitive sports involving Horse jumping. These include show jumping, hunter, and the cross-country phase of the equestrian discipline of eventing. ...
- Coffin is a surname of English origin, and may refer to: * Bill Coffin, writer of novels and role-playing games * Charles Edward Coffin, politician from U.S. ...
- The coffin was a type of torture developed in the Middle Ages. In it, the victim was placed inside a metal human-shaped frame. This frame was often made too large to increase discomfort. The time spent inside of the "coffin" was determined by the crime for which the person had been convicted. ...
- The Coffin family were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure due to their discovery of various islands in the Pacific Ocean.
- The Coffin is a South Korean/Thai/Singapore horror film starring Ananda Everingham and Karen Mok.
- A container for a mummy. It could be a rectangular box or anthropoid (human) shaped. The word coffin is often interchanged with sarcophagus, although strictly the latter refers to the outer stone container which contains the coffin.
