See Also: coffin(dictionary)
coffin(2)(dictionary)
coffin(1)(dictionary)
Coffin Cake(recipes)
Coffin, Grange(medicine)
Coffin, Levi(encyclopedia)
coffin joint(medicine)
Coffin-Lowry syndrome(health)
Coffin-Siris syndrome(medicine)
Coffin-Lowry syndrome(medicine)

coffin (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: cophin, from Latin cophinus 'basket', from Greek kophinos]
a long box in which a dead person is buried or burnt
American Equivalent: casket
-see also a nail in sb's/sth's coffin at nail 1 (3)