coffin

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒfɪn/    美 /ˈkɔfɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
    — […] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
  2. An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine. Cornwall,obsolete
  3. The eighth Lenormand card.
  4. A deep ditch. Cornwall,broadly
  5. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie. archaic
    — Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
  6. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. obsolete
    — The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.
  7. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  8. A storage container for nuclear waste.
  9. A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
动词 v.
  1. To place in a coffin. transitive
    — Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.

词形变化

coffins plural cophin alternative,archaic coffyn alternative,archaic coffins present,singular,third-person coffining participle,present coffined participle,past coffined past cophin alternative,archaic coffyn alternative,archaic coffins plural coffan alternative coffen alternative goffin alternative goffan alternative goffen alternative cophin alternative,archaic coffyn alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh.
词源 2
Borrowed from Cornish koghyn (“exploratory trench”), with spelling likely influenced by etymology 1.
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