0 a box in which a dead body is placed for burial -- kiste [ masculine ]
1 a box for a dead body to be buried or cremated in; casket American -- likkiste
The coffin was placed in the grave.
One announcement of redundancies follows another like nails being driven into a coffin.
So let us have some symbolism today as well, with another coffin in the plenary.
Coffin's biography is helpful in providing an ordered approach to a figure who remains controversial.
The 1912 legal reform was the final nail in the coffin.
By contrast, the working class had little need for the undertaker's services, except to provide a coffin and, possibly, transportation.
The fisherman is entirely possessed by his grief, and he can neither look at his son's coffin nor look away from it.
Surely this is the last nail in the coffin of the 'posthumous dialogue'.
The lost text may have contained the name(s) of one or more people buried, or deposited, in the coffin.
