Usually means: Temporary enclosure to exclude water.
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  9. cofferdam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. cofferdam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  19. cofferdam: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cofferdam)

noun:  (engineering) A temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
noun:  (nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
noun:  (introduced by dentist Sanford Christie Barnum, New York, in 1864, but after his century maintained only in other languages than English) A rubber dam to keep the teeth dry when operating upon them.

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