- Coffin
- A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental
character, as for jewels, etc.
- A kind of burial case.
- Anything containing or intended to contain something highly
esteemed
- The body.
- The tomb.
- A book of selections.
- Ancient coffin
- Where a pharaoh rests
- A species of limestone used among the Greeks for
making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few
weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis
Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a
city of Lycia.
- A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
- A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a
grave as a memorial.
- Burial platforms
- Coffin stands
- Coffin transportation
- Funeral car
- Funeral vehicle
- Late transport picks up last of entourage
- Undertaker’s vehicle
- A hind in the year of its age.
- A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb
of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy
bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was
placed during the funeral ceremonies.
- Coffin carrier
- Cortege escort
- cottage escort
- One who carries a coffin
- Undertaker’s assistant
- One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so
called from the pall being formerly carried by them.