Crossword-Solution: COFFER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coffer | n. | A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. |
| Coffer | n. | Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. |
| Coffer | n. | A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. |
| Coffer | n. | 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. |
| Coffer | n. | The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. |
| Coffer | v. t. | To put into a coffer. |
| Coffer | v. t. | To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. |
| Coffer | v. t. | To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “COFFER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Valuables holder | 1 answer |
| Strong box. | 1 answer |
| SUNK panel in ceiling | 1 answer |
| SOFFIT, sunk panel in | 1 answer |
| CEILING panel | 1 answer |
| Treasure chest | 2 answers |
| Lockbox | 2 answers |
| Chest for valuables | 2 answers |
| money chest | 2 answers |
| CAISSE | 2 answers |
| Box for valuables | 3 answers |
| Strong-box | 3 answers |
| pyx | 4 answers |
| exchequer | 6 answers |
| Caisson | 8 answers |
| ANCIENT STRONGBOX | 10 answers |
| A STRONGBOX FOR HOLDING CASH | 10 answers |
| A CHEST ESPECIALLY FOR STORING VALUABLES | 10 answers |
| AN ORNAMENTAL SUNKEN PANEL IN A CEILING OR DOME | 11 answers |
| ark | 12 answers |
| treasury | 16 answers |
| Till | 20 answers |
| Chest | 37 answers |
| Panel | 60 answers |
| __ box | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COFFER (5)
Now I see the words on thy lips; so I tell thee that Blaise thy brother is alive and well and happy; which last word means that his coffer is both deep and full.
However, he was taken away a prisoner, Captain Gray mounting him on his own horse, though, as Turner naively remarks, ‘there was good reason for it, for he mounted himself on a farre better one of mine.’ A large coffer containing his clothes and money, together with all his papers, were taken away by the rebels.
Petulengro; Isopel made no other reply than by replacing in her coffer two additional cups and saucers, which, in expectation of company, she had placed upon the board.
Inside was a small coffer, of walnut wood, also barred with iron, but fastened with only three locks, which were all comfortably picked by way of the keyhole.
When Cneius Terentius went digging in his estate in the Janiculum he came upon a coffer which contained not only the remains of Numa, the old Roman king, but also the manuscripts of the famous laws which Numa compiled.
Quotes with COFFER (2)
Cixi’s lack of formal education was more than made up for by her intuitive intelligence, which she liked to use from her earliest years. In 1843, when she was seven, the empire had just finished its first war with the West, the Opium War, which had been started by Britain in reaction to Beijing clamping down on the illegal opium trade conducted by British merchants. China was defeated and had to pay a hefty indemnity. Desperate for funds, Emperor Daoguang (father of Cixi’s fu…
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1954–2017).