coffern.

Brit.

/ˈkɒfə/, U.S.

/ˈkɔfər/,

/ˈkɑfər/

Forms: Middle English cofere, coofer, Middle English cofre, cofur, Middle English–1500s coffre, Middle English–1600s cofer, Middle English cofir, cofyr(e, ( cowffer, coufre, cophor), 1500s coafer, ( cofar, coffar, coffur), Middle English– coffer.

Etymology: Middle English cofre , coffre , etc., < Old French cofre, coffre < Latin cophinum , nominative cophinus , < Greek κόϕινος basket; compare coffin n. The phonetic development (through *cof'no) is the same as in Latin ordin-em, French ordre, Latin *Londinus, French Londres. For the extension of sense, compare (in Du Cange) Capit. de Villis, cap. 62: ‘de cofinis id est scriniis’.

a. A box, chest: esp. a strong box in which money or valuables are kept.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun]

shrinec1000

boist?c1225

busta1250

cofferc1300

coffinc1330

buist1393

boosta1400

pyx1609

pyxis1708

box1751

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > place of safe storage

chesta700

cofferc1300

aumbry1356

salvatorya1676

safe deposit1706

lock-up1843

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest > for valuable articles

chesta700

cofferc1300

gardeviance1459

c1300 Beket 1925 Ich have a lute cofre..Ther beoth ȝut inne atte leste eiȝte hondred pound.

c1325 Coer de L. 1939 They brake coffers and took tresours.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 855 He gooth vn to his cofre And broghte gold.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 25 The seid William to have..al my..cofferys, and tubbes wid alle othir ostilmentys.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 33 A lityl grene coffre for kerchys.

1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Cassa, a cheste or coafer.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 134 These shot and bullets must be carried in coffers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 193 He commands vs to prouide, and giue great guifts, and all out of an empty Coffer .

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 28 Several coffers and cabinets..were fill'd with stuffs of gold.

1802 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall iii. 25 A large iron-bound coffer.

a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 116 My breast's my coffer, and my God's my hope.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxiv He owns not a slave nor any coffer.

b. In the plural often equivalent to ‘treasury’, and hence ‘funds, pecuniary resources’.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun]

coffer1377

pursec1384

possibilityc1385

moneyc1390

financec1475

abilityc1503

purse stringc1530

moyen1547

means1560

financy1600

pocket1633

fonds1669

wherewith1674

apoinctee1682

funds1700

ways and means1738

money stock1743

pecuniary1748

pecuniar1793

wherewithal1809

ante1843

pocketbook1897

society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [noun]

treasuryc1290

coffer1377

treasure1426

hoard-housec1440

treasure-house1486

thesaurhouse1488

thesaurer house1489

thesaurary house1495

gold housea1500

thesaurary1592

reconditory1633

thesaurya1639

thesaurus1823

chancery1842

trove1976

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 192 For alle are we crystes creatures and of his coffres riche.

1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 52 Al went..in to your owne Cofres.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 41^v Whereby thou mayst..enriche thy cofers.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 198 As long as we have Money in our Coffers.

1721 J. Swift Bubble 11 A Million in his Coffers.

1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics vi. 82 The coffers of the government had long been empty.

1869 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland (ed. 3) ii. 22 Efforts..to fill the coffers of Rome by the sale of indulgences.

†2. An ark. Applied to Noah's ark, the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was laid, and the ‘ark of God’. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun]

arkc825

shrinec1000

coffera1400

archea1450

cybory1484

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5614 A cofur of ȝerdes dud she [sc. Moses' mother] be wrouȝt.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 310 Make to þe..A cofer closed of tres.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. xxv. 10 Ioyne ȝe togidere an arke [ MS. c1420 arke ether cofere].

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. xi. f. xxi They put it in a lytle cofer, and layde it oute vpon a ryuers banke.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. iii. 117 [David's] Dance..in the Procession of the sacred Coffer.

†3. A coffin. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin

chestc890

througheOE

tombc1300

cofferc1381

kista1400

coffin1525

box1614

sandapile1623

wooden doublet1761

pillbox1789

casket1849

wooden surtout1864

pine overcoat1890

overcoat1904

wooden kimono1926

pine drape1945

wooden suit1968

c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 177 The piler elm, the cofre unto careyne.

c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. iv. 6 b Whan y^t death nayled them in their coffers.

1488 Will of Richard Batte (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 106 My body to be buryed in a cofer of tree.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. vi. f. liii^v A great coffer of Cypres. Into whiche they did putt the boanes of them, that were dead of that trybe.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 43 Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres.

†4. coffer of the heart: the pericardium. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > membranes of

coffer of the heart1398

pericardium?a1425

precordium?1541

closet of the heart1594

hulla1600

heart-purse1615

heart-bag1668

heart sac1828

epicardium1860

endocardium1872

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxvi. 149 Abowte the herte is a maner clothynge that hyghte the shryne and the cofre of the hert.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxvi. 150 The herte..greuyd by some postume that infecteth the cofre therof.

5. Architecture.

a. A sunk panel in a ceiling or soffit, of ornamental character, usually decorated in the centre with a flower or the like.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > sunk panel

coffer1664

lunette1722

cradle1823

lacunars1823

coffering1845

cassoon1850

lunetta1898

caisson-

1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 138 Those [are call'd] Cofers wherein are cut the Roses..which adorne the spaces 'twixt the heads of the Modilions and Mutules.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 506 The coffers of the soffit of the cornice are square.

1845 Athenæum 11 Jan. 48 On the grounds of the coffers forming the lacunaria of the ceilings.

b. A space within a wall, pier, etc., filled up with concrete, rubble, or loose material. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > parts of

wall-sidec1540

jamb1687

coffer1715

set-off1717

ramp1795

wall-casing1858

setback1864

1715 J. Leoni tr. Palladio Archit. 14 The ancient walls of Naples..are made of two rows of free stones..bound together with other crossing rows, so that the space or Coffers..were filled up with stones or earth.

†6. Fortification. (See quot.) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Coffer, in Fortification, is an hollow Lodgment, athwart a dry Moat, from six to seven Foot deep, and from sixteen to eighteen Foot broad: the upper Part being made of pieces of Timber rais'd two Foot above the Level of the Moat; which little Elevation has Hurdles laden with Earth for its covering; and serves as a Parapet, with Embrasures.

1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in later Dicts.

7. Mining.

a. A trough in which tin-ore is broken to pieces. ? Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2108 Which with the Ores falls down into the Coffer (i.e. a long square box of the firmest timber, 3 foot long and 1½ foot over).

b. ‘A rectangular plank frame, used in timbering levels’ (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881).

ΚΠ

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 121 Coffer or Cofer, Derb[yshire]...A rectangular plank frame, used in timbering levels.

8. Ordnance Survey. Applied to wooden troughs used to support the chain in measuring a base-line of an Ordnance Survey.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > chain > trough to support

coffer1785

coffering1785

1785 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 452 Each coffer consisted of three boards about half an inch thick.

1800 Roy Surveying in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 557 The apparatus for the measurement, consisting of..pickets, iron heads, and a new set of coffers.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 217/2 In the actual measurement the measuring chain was not supported on coffers, or stretched by a constant weight.

9. Hydraulics.

Thesaurus »

Categories »

a. A caisson or watertight box: cf. coffer-dam n. 1.

b. A kind of caisson or floating dock.

ΚΠ

1823 Trans. Soc. Arts 40 125 c c the coffer slung by the ropes d d [a watertight box used in repairing a ship's side, below the water line; elsewhere called a caisson].

Categories »

c. ‘The lock for a barge’ (Simmonds).

10. in fire-coffer n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

† coffer-key n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biii^v Thryfte hathe lost her cofer kay.

coffer-lid n. figurative

ΚΠ

1483 Cath. Angl. 70 A Corfyrled [v.r. Cofer leyd], arculus.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Giij She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes.

C2. See also coffer-dam n., coffer-work n.

coffer-fish n. a trunk-fish, a species of Ostracion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Ostraciontidae (trunk-fish) > member of genus Ostracion

ostracion1658

boxfish1798

trunk-fish1804

cow-fish1870

coffer-fish1884

1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 14 The extraordinary coffer-fish..preserved and sold at Suez to homeward-bound Anglo-Indians.

coffer-like adj.

ΚΠ

1850 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. 338 The huge Cofre de Perote, which borrows its name..from the coffer-like rock on its summit.

coffer-slide valve n. a box slide-valve of a steam-engine.

ΚΠ

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 135 A coffer-slide valve, which requires no packing to make it steam-tight, as there is always a vacuum under it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coffer
释义	coffern. Brit. /ˈkɒfə/, U.S. /ˈkɔfər/, /ˈkɑfər/ Forms: Middle English cofere, coofer, Middle English cofre, cofur, Middle English–1500s coffre, Middle English–1600s cofer, Middle English cofir, cofyr(e, ( cowffer, coufre, cophor), 1500s coafer, ( cofar, coffar, coffur), Middle English– coffer. Etymology: Middle English cofre , coffre , etc., < Old French cofre, coffre < Latin cophinum , nominative cophinus , < Greek κόϕινος basket; compare coffin n. The phonetic development (through cof'no) is the same as in Latin ordin-em, French ordre, Latin Londinus, French Londres. For the extension of sense, compare (in Du Cange) Capit. de Villis, cap. 62: ‘de cofinis id est scriniis’. 1. a. A box, chest: esp. a strong box in which money or valuables are kept. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] shrinec1000 boist?c1225 busta1250 cofferc1300 coffinc1330 buist1393 boosta1400 pyx1609 pyxis1708 box1751 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > place of safe storage chesta700 cofferc1300 aumbry1356 salvatorya1676 safe deposit1706 lock-up1843 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest > for valuable articles chesta700 cofferc1300 gardeviance1459 c1300 Beket 1925 Ich have a lute cofre..Ther beoth ȝut inne atte leste eiȝte hondred pound. c1325 Coer de L. 1939 They brake coffers and took tresours. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 855 He gooth vn to his cofre And broghte gold. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 25 The seid William to have..al my..cofferys, and tubbes wid alle othir ostilmentys. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 33 A lityl grene coffre for kerchys. 1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Cassa, a cheste or coafer. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 134 These shot and bullets must be carried in coffers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 193 He commands vs to prouide, and giue great guifts, and all out of an empty Coffer . View more context for this quotation 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 28 Several coffers and cabinets..were fill'd with stuffs of gold. 1802 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall iii. 25 A large iron-bound coffer. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 116 My breast's my coffer, and my God's my hope. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxiv He owns not a slave nor any coffer. b. In the plural often equivalent to ‘treasury’, and hence ‘funds, pecuniary resources’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] coffer1377 pursec1384 possibilityc1385 moneyc1390 financec1475 abilityc1503 purse stringc1530 moyen1547 means1560 financy1600 pocket1633 fonds1669 wherewith1674 apoinctee1682 funds1700 ways and means1738 money stock1743 pecuniary1748 pecuniar1793 wherewithal1809 ante1843 pocketbook1897 society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [noun] treasuryc1290 coffer1377 treasure1426 hoard-housec1440 treasure-house1486 thesaurhouse1488 thesaurer house1489 thesaurary house1495 gold housea1500 thesaurary1592 reconditory1633 thesaurya1639 thesaurus1823 chancery1842 trove1976 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 192 For alle are we crystes creatures and of his coffres riche. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 52 Al went..in to your owne Cofres. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 41^v Whereby thou mayst..enriche thy cofers. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 198 As long as we have Money in our Coffers. 1721 J. Swift Bubble 11 A Million in his Coffers. 1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics vi. 82 The coffers of the government had long been empty. 1869 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland (ed. 3) ii. 22 Efforts..to fill the coffers of Rome by the sale of indulgences. †2. An ark. Applied to Noah's ark, the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was laid, and the ‘ark of God’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun] arkc825 shrinec1000 coffera1400 archea1450 cybory1484 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5614 A cofur of ȝerdes dud she [sc. Moses' mother] be wrouȝt. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 310 Make to þe..A cofer closed of tres. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. xxv. 10 Ioyne ȝe togidere an arke [ MS. c1420 arke ether cofere]. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. xi. f. xxi They put it in a lytle cofer, and layde it oute vpon a ryuers banke. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. iii. 117 [David's] Dance..in the Procession of the sacred Coffer. †3. A coffin. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin chestc890 througheOE tombc1300 cofferc1381 kista1400 coffin1525 box1614 sandapile1623 wooden doublet1761 pillbox1789 casket1849 wooden surtout1864 pine overcoat1890 overcoat1904 wooden kimono1926 pine drape1945 wooden suit1968 c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 177 The piler elm, the cofre unto careyne. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. iv. 6 b Whan y^t death nayled them in their coffers. 1488 Will of Richard Batte (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 106 My body to be buryed in a cofer of tree. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. vi. f. liii^v A great coffer of Cypres. Into whiche they did putt the boanes of them, that were dead of that trybe. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 43 Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres. †4. coffer of the heart: the pericardium. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > membranes of coffer of the heart1398 pericardium?a1425 precordium?1541 closet of the heart1594 hulla1600 heart-purse1615 heart-bag1668 heart sac1828 epicardium1860 endocardium1872 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxvi. 149 Abowte the herte is a maner clothynge that hyghte the shryne and the cofre of the hert. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxvi. 150 The herte..greuyd by some postume that infecteth the cofre therof. 5. Architecture. a. A sunk panel in a ceiling or soffit, of ornamental character, usually decorated in the centre with a flower or the like. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > sunk panel coffer1664 lunette1722 cradle1823 lacunars1823 coffering1845 cassoon1850 lunetta1898 caisson- 1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 138 Those [are call'd] Cofers wherein are cut the Roses..which adorne the spaces 'twixt the heads of the Modilions and Mutules. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 506 The coffers of the soffit of the cornice are square. 1845 Athenæum 11 Jan. 48 On the grounds of the coffers forming the lacunaria of the ceilings. b. A space within a wall, pier, etc., filled up with concrete, rubble, or loose material. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > parts of wall-sidec1540 jamb1687 coffer1715 set-off1717 ramp1795 wall-casing1858 setback1864 1715 J. Leoni tr. Palladio Archit. 14 The ancient walls of Naples..are made of two rows of free stones..bound together with other crossing rows, so that the space or Coffers..were filled up with stones or earth. †6. Fortification. (See quot.) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Coffer, in Fortification, is an hollow Lodgment, athwart a dry Moat, from six to seven Foot deep, and from sixteen to eighteen Foot broad: the upper Part being made of pieces of Timber rais'd two Foot above the Level of the Moat; which little Elevation has Hurdles laden with Earth for its covering; and serves as a Parapet, with Embrasures. 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in later Dicts. 7. Mining. a. A trough in which tin-ore is broken to pieces. ? Obsolete. ΚΠ 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2108 Which with the Ores falls down into the Coffer (i.e. a long square box of the firmest timber, 3 foot long and 1½ foot over). b. ‘A rectangular plank frame, used in timbering levels’ (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 121 Coffer or Cofer, Derb[yshire]...A rectangular plank frame, used in timbering levels. 8. Ordnance Survey. Applied to wooden troughs used to support the chain in measuring a base-line of an Ordnance Survey. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > chain > trough to support coffer1785 coffering1785 1785 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 452 Each coffer consisted of three boards about half an inch thick. 1800 Roy Surveying in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 557 The apparatus for the measurement, consisting of..pickets, iron heads, and a new set of coffers. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 217/2 In the actual measurement the measuring chain was not supported on coffers, or stretched by a constant weight. 9. Hydraulics. Thesaurus » Categories » a. A caisson or watertight box: cf. coffer-dam n. 1. b. A kind of caisson or floating dock. ΚΠ 1823 Trans. Soc. Arts 40 125 c c the coffer slung by the ropes d d [a watertight box used in repairing a ship's side, below the water line; elsewhere called a caisson]. Categories » c. ‘The lock for a barge’ (Simmonds). 10. in fire-coffer n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a. Compounds C1. General attributive. † coffer-key n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biii^v Thryfte hathe lost her cofer kay. coffer-lid n. figurative ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 70 A Corfyrled [v.r. Cofer leyd], arculus. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Giij She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes. View more context for this quotation C2. See also coffer-dam n., coffer-work n. coffer-fish n. a trunk-fish, a species of Ostracion. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Ostraciontidae (trunk-fish) > member of genus Ostracion ostracion1658 boxfish1798 trunk-fish1804 cow-fish1870 coffer-fish1884 1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 14 The extraordinary coffer-fish..preserved and sold at Suez to homeward-bound Anglo-Indians. coffer-like adj. ΚΠ 1850 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. 338 The huge Cofre de Perote, which borrows its name..from the coffer-like rock on its summit. coffer-slide valve n. a box slide-valve of a steam-engine. ΚΠ 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 135 A coffer-slide valve, which requires no packing to make it steam-tight, as there is always a vacuum under it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cofferv.¹ Brit. /ˈkɒfə/, U.S. /ˈkɔfər/, /ˈkɑfər/ Etymology: < coffer n.: compare French coffrer. 1. transitive. To enclose in, or as in, a coffer; to lay up securely; to hoard, to treasure up. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > hoard hoardc1000 cofferc1394 moocha1400 sparec1400 muckera1425 hive1574 pose1866 c1394 P. Pl. Crede 68 He will kepen it hym-self & cofren it faste. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 43 Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G1^v The aged man that coffers vp his gold. View more context for this quotation 1676 R. Grove Vindic. Conforming Clergy (1680) 23 He..coffers it up amongst his other choice Expressions. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xix. 372 They gathered up The ashes of the dead, and coffered them Apart. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iii. 45 This family document..is perhaps still coffered among the antiquities of our antiquaries' collections. Categories » 2. Architecture. To adorn with coffers (see coffer n. 5a). See coffered adj. 3. Mining. (See quots., and cf. coffer-dam n.) ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 121 Coffer or Cofer (Derb.), to secure a shaft from leaking by ramming in clay behind the masonry or timbering. 1882 Nature 12 Oct. 569/2 The process of coffering out or damming back water in shafts..by means of a water-tight lining now called tubbing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † cofferv.² Etymology: ? compare goffer n. Obsolete. To curl up, twist, warp. (intransitive and transitive). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (intransitive)] > curl locker?c1475 crisp1583 to roll up1658 curl1694 coffer1725 scroll1868 frizzle1886 quirl1944 the world > space > shape > misshapenness > put out of shape [verb (transitive)] > distort > twist and bend writheOE awarpc1300 warpa1400 skeller1691 coffer1784 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Melon The Sun will soon draw the Heat of so fresh a Bed to that Degree, that..the two first Leaves..of the Plant will twirl or coffer. 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 53 By the same cause that a board is made round or coffered up, by the heat of the Sun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1300v.¹c1394v.²1725
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