Casket vs. Coffin

Casketnoun

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

Casketnoun

(Britain) An urn.

Casketnoun

(North America) A coffin.

Casketnoun

(nautical) A gasket.

Casketverb

To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

Casketnoun

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.

Casketnoun

A kind of burial case.

Casketnoun

Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed

Casketnoun

A gasket. See Gasket.

Casketverb

To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

Casketnoun

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Casketnoun

small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables

Casketverb

enclose in a casket

Casketnoun

a small ornamental box or chest for holding jewels, letters, or other valued objects

Casketnoun

a small wooden box for cremated ashes.

Casketnoun

a coffin.

Casket

A casket or jewelry box is a container that is usually smaller than a chest, and in the past were typically decorated.

Coffinnoun

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

Coffinnoun

(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.

Coffinnoun

(obsolete) A basket.

Coffinnoun

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

Coffinnoun

(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Coffinnoun

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

Coffinverb

(transitive) To place in a coffin.

Coffinnoun

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

Coffinnoun

A basket.

Coffinnoun

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

Coffinnoun

A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Coffinnoun

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

Coffinverb

To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

Coffinnoun

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Coffinverb

place into a coffin;

Coffinnoun

a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a dead body is buried or cremated

Coffinnoun

an old and unsafe aircraft or ship

Coffinverb

put (a dead body) in a coffin

Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. The word took two different paths.