Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coffin.
- noun A small case or chest, as for jewels and other valuables.
- transitive verb To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
gasket . - To put into a little chest.
- noun See
casquet . - noun A small chest or box for jewels or other small articles.
- noun A fanciful name applied to a book consisting of a number of selected literary or musical pieces: as, a casket of literary gems.
- noun A coffin, especially a costly one: used as a softened synonym of coffin.
- noun A stalk or stem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A gasket. See
gasket . - noun A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
- noun United States A kind of burial case.
- noun poetic, poetic Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed.
- noun poetic, poetic The body.
- noun poetic, poetic The tomb.
- noun poetic A book of selections.
- transitive verb Poetic To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A little
box , e.g. forjewellery . - noun An
urn . - noun A
coffin . - verb poetic, transitive To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
- noun box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
- verb enclose in a casket
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We should be fairly certain that the person in the casket is a MAN not a boy or a woman.
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I want your demise to occur in a sloppy sort of way that forces a closed casket funeral -- and the casket is the size of an Altoids tin because that's all it took to hold what the cops scraped off the walls.
yipes. 2004
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The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbors lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility.
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Funeral: Yeardley Love's casket is taken into a Baltimore church.
It's easy to unfairly assign blame in Yeardley Love's death 2010
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The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbors lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility.
August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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After leaving the Capitol, the casket is to proceed to Arlington National Cemetery, where Kennedy will be buried, 95 feet south of the grave of his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy, which is in turn just steps away from the burial site of his brother, former President John F. Kennedy.
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The man in the casket is jack. the other jack is a clone created by jacob who is secretly a steam engine. in the very frist episode, we see lots of naked girls kissing eachother.
The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts 2008
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The Big Bopper's casket is to be auction on eBay in the next few weeks.
Boing Boing 2008
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The metal casket is apparently in decent condition with just a bit of rust and water damage.
Boing Boing 2008
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The man in the casket is jack. the other jack is a clone created by jacob who is secretly a steam engine. in the very frist episode, we see lots of naked girls kissing eachother.
The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts 2008
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