n
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
n
A form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.
v
(transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
n
Alternative form of catafalque [A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.]
n
A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
n
(UK, Australia, colloquial) cemetery
v
(transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
adj
(Of a funeral) Held with the casket containing the body remaining closed throughout the entire procession.
n
A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
n
The contents of a coffin.
n
Obsolete form of coffin. [A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.]
n
(UK, slang, obsolete) A coffin.
n
Archaic spelling of coffin. [A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.]
v
(transitive) To keep in a crate.
n
(historical) A cart for transporting the bodies of the dead in times of plague.
n
A room in a funeral parlour set aside for the embalming of bodies prior to the funeral service and burial. It consists of a table, embalming machine, chemicals, and tools.
v
(transitive) To put into a kennel.
n
(historical) A gravedigger in the catacombs of Ancient Rome.
adj
(of an animal or machine) Fed by hand.
n
A coffin suspended on a cliff as part of an ancient funeral custom practised in countries such as China, Indonesia and the Philippines.
n
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
n
A bier or a coffin used to transport and bury the body of a dead person.
n
(Scotland) An iron frame constructed over a grave as a protection against resurrectionists
n
The carrying of the casket at a funeral.
v
(figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
n
Any coffin specially designed for the occupant to leave it in case of premature burial, such as by warning other people to help him.
v
(transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
n
(animation) The room where a scene is reviewed.
n
(obsolete) A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.
v
(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
n
(figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.
n
(historical, Roman antiquity) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
n
(US, slang) Synonym of coffin.
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