coffer
coffer is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
- noun. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
- noun. A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
- transitive verb. To put into a coffer.
- transitive verb. To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
- transitive verb. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
- noun. a chest especially for storing valuables
- noun. an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
Synonyms
Common word forms
coffers, coffered, cofferer, coffering
Words from these letters
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