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COFFER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old French cof(f)re ‘chest’, ‘box’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of coffers or chests or, by extension, for a treasurer.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kaufer or Kauffer (see Kaufer).
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Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Cute; Beautiful
Boy/Male
American, British, Christian, English, German, Jamaican, Teutonic
Foreign Hill; Ella's Mound; Old Friend; From the Sacred Hill; From the Old Settlement; Old; Ella's Hill
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
A small cultivator
Girl/Female
Indian
Free, Princess
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a person of slender build or diminutive stature, from Middle English smal ‘thin’, ‘narrow’.Translation of equivalents in other European languages, such as German Klein and Schmal, French Petit.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Paint brush
Boy/Male
Buddhist, Indian, Sanskrit
Born of the Heaven
Boy/Male
Norse
A mythical servant of Thor.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Signifies Beyond Measure; Goddess Parvati
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Rachel, RACHEAL means "ewe."
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v. t.
To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
n.
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
n.
A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.
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A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
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A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
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The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.
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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.
n.
A cofferdam.
n.
A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
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Rubblework faced with stone.
n.
A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
n.
Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
v. t.
To put into a coffer.
n.
A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
v. t.
To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
n.
The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
n.
One who keeps treasures in a coffer.
v. t.
To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.
n.
The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
n.
A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.