COFFER

Coffer. Coffer
The receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Sam. 6:8, 11, 15).

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COFFER. → A chest 1Sa 6:8,11,15; Eze 27:24 → See TREASURY

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coffer. Coffer, n. a chest, a treasure; v.t. to treasure up

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Cof″fer (?; 115), n. [[OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr. Gr. �. Cf. Coffin, n.]] 1. 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer.
In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 2. 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; — usually in the plural.
He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak. 3. 3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
4. 4. (Fort.) 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.
5. 5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. — Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.