Usually means: Enclosing a body in casket.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word coffining:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. coffining: Merriam-Webster
  2. coffining: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coffining: Vocabulary.com
  4. coffining: Wiktionary
  5. Coffining, coffining: Dictionary.com
  6. Coffining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Coffining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. coffining: FreeDictionary.org
  9. coffining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coffining: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coffining: Medical dictionary

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  1. coffining: Idioms

(Note: See coffin as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Coffin)

noun:  A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
noun:  (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
noun:  (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
noun:  (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
noun:  The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
noun:  A storage container for nuclear waste.
noun:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To place in a coffin.
noun:  (mining, obsolete) An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
noun:  (by extension) A deep ditch.
noun:  A surname.
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