Meanings (ES + gloss)
ataúd • caja mortuoria • cajón • féretro • urna
A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the…
[…] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
Phrases
Job's CoffinY-shaped coffinanother nail in someone's coffinanother nail in the coffincoffin birthcoffin bonecoffin cornercoffin dodgercoffin flycoffin handlecoffin nailcoffin ridecoffin ridercoffin shipcoffin tackcoffinfulcoffinlesscoffinlikecoffinmakercoffinmakingdrive a nail in someone's coffinencoffinencoffinerencoffinmentfinal nail in the coffinflying coffinhanging coffinlast nail in the coffinnail in one's coffinrecoffinsafety coffintreetrunk coffinuncoffin