Word Finder - coffin

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A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

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• casket

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The eighth Lenormand card.

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A basket.

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A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

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A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

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The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

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A storage container for nuclear waste.

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To place in a coffin.

It was a coffin with bones inside.

He lugged the coffin to the new portal and shoved it through.

Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.

It is not therefore larceny to steal a corpse, but any removal of the coffin or grave-cloths is otherwise, such remaining the property of the persons who buried the body.

Try as he might, the mourning ladies of dreamland wouldn't return to the empty coffin.

That he was of short stature is proved by the length of the coffin in which his body is still preserved, less than 5 ft.

Its principal manufactures are gunpowder, carpets, brick, cotton press machinery, and coffin hardware.

He happen to be carrying a clear coffin?

They rested here with the coffin.

I wonder how they got him away from the coffin.

C. Druce was then found in the coffin.

A great catafalque had been built, housing a symbolic coffin.

Model coffin The outer wooden coffin contains an inner cardboard coffin.

Coffin 9 had a solid wooden headrest on the top of the coffin.

Her body lay in state in a coffin covered in a black velvet pall under a canopy in the black draped dining room.

When the body, washed and dressed, lay in the coffin on a table, everyone came to take leave of him and they all wept.

Sasha sat on top of the sarcophagus and looked around, smug in how safe he was sitting on top of the coffin.

In the war with Rome he belonged to the peace party, and finding that the Zealots were resolved on carrying their revolt to its inevitable sequel, Johanan had himself conveyed out of Jerusalem in a coffin.

In June she followed the king to England (after distributing all her effects in Edinburgh among her ladies) with the prince and the coffin containing the body of her dead infant, and reached Windsor on the 2nd of July, where amidst other forms of good fortune she entered into the possession of Queen Elizabeth's 6000 dresses.

The principal manufactures of the township are jewelry, silverware, cotton goods, cotton machinery, coffin trimmings, and leather.

Ultimately the bishop of Quebec, unable to get a mandamus from the English privy council to dig him up, solemnly deconsecrated the ground down to the estimated depth of the lid of the wife's coffin.

He died on the 28th of November 1826, leaving a request that his right hand should be cut off and preserved till the death of the marchioness of Hastings, and then be interred in her coffin.

She managed to visit England every year, and it was at her special request that when she died her husband laid an English flag upon her coffin.

The inking arrangements are usually very good, for, by a system of racks and cogs which may be regulated to a nicety, the necessary distribution of ink and rolling of the printing surface runs in gear with the travelling type bed or coffin.

Their funeral mourning consists of abstaining from drink and eating raw beef, and they use a wooden log for a coffin.

The same year he lost his only son - a blow which, he said, "drove the nails into his own coffin."

The carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist of man, is commonly called the " knee " of the horse, the joint between the metacarpal and the first phalanx the " fetlock," that between the first and second phalanges the " pastern," and that between the second and third phalanges the " coffin joint."

Now, eyes open, eyes shut—it was both the same—as black as the inside of a buried coffin on a moonless night.

Cynthia suggested a funeral, complete with a shoebox coffin and a solemn burial, a feat Dean would have guessed impossible given the frozen earth.

Campaigners carry a coffin through the streets of Brussels, with the slogan ' Trade Justice, Not Free Trade ' .

Drugged, he awakes to find himself buried alive glass coffin with only a gun for company.

He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or at any rate, had not thought of it.

We will provide advice on the types of coffin, including biodegradable coffins, which can be used.

The empty coffin now resides at the back of the Yogomaia Mosque, a permanent reminder of the lamentable event.

Coffin bearers Quite often members of a family ask to bear the coffin bearers Quite often members of a family ask to bear the coffin.

Bert and I made the very posh oak coffin with all the best trimmings and furniture.

Three probable graves were recorded, but only the iron coffin nails survived.

At least when you shuffle off your mortal coil, the coffin will only have two corners damaged.

Back to top Is the coffin cremated with the body?

Without exception the coffin is always cremated with the body.

Each coffin is separately cremated and is treated with the utmost respect once it has been entrusted to our care.

For anyone who needs to purchase one, a coffin is an emotional symbol of a close relative now deceased.

Trouble is, what I actually saw was somebody blowing down a stick of wood to a bunch of coffin dodgers.

How dare he have his coffin draped with a Union Flag at his funeral.

An ecologically friendly coffin can still be used in any part of the cemeteries, and all arrangements can be made by the family.

The final nail in the already quite tightly shut lid of SOF II's coffin is the bad level designs.

The review should have slammed the coffin lid on nuclear power once for all.

The nail in the coffin so to speak has come rather recently, through the past year's scandals of broad corporate malfeasance.

By analogy with other Beaker graves, it may suggest that a timber mortuary ' house ' enclosed the coffin.

The coffin is usually brought into the chapel followed by the mourners in procession.