Usually means: Enclosures for burial or cremation.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word coffins:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. coffins: Merriam-Webster
  2. coffins: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coffins: Collins English Dictionary
  4. coffins: Vocabulary.com
  5. Coffin's, Coffins, coffin's, coffins: Wordnik
  6. coffins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Coffins, coffins: Wiktionary
  8. coffins: Dictionary.com
  9. coffins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Coffins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. coffins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. coffins: Encyclopedia

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

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  1. coffins: 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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