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coffer 音标拼音: [k'ɔfɚ] n. 保险箱,金库潜水箱
vt. 装箱 保险箱,金库潜水箱装箱 coffer n 1: an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome [ synonym: { coffer}, { caisson}, { lacuna}] 2: a chest especially for storing valuablesCoffer \ Cof" fer\ (?; 115), n. [ OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr. Gr. ?. Cf. { Coffin}, n.] 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster] He would discharge it without any burden to the queen' s coffers, for honor sake. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] Hold, here is half my coffer. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Fort.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. [ 1913 Webster] { Coffer dam}. ( Engin.) See { Cofferdam}, in the Vocabulary. { Coffer fish}. ( Zool.) See { Cowfish}. [ 1913 Webster]
Coffer \ Cof" fer\, v. t. 1. To put into a coffer. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. -- Raymond. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " coffer": Fort Knox, bank, bundle away, bursary, cache, cash register, cashbox, chest, coin box, deposit, depository, exchequer, file, fisc, gold depository, hutch, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, locker, lodge, money chest, pack away, penny bank, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, put away, reposit, repository, reservoir, safe, safe- deposit box, salt away, salt down, stash, store, store away, storehouse, stow, stow away, stow down, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, till, treasure- house, treasury, vault, warehouse
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