Definitions for "Coffer"
Keywords:  sunken, dome, vault, valuables, chest
A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
Keywords:  moat, besieged, dug, raking, trench
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
Keywords:  furnish, form
To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
To put into a coffer.