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 cof·fer /ˈkɔfɚ/
 保險箱,金庫潛水箱(vt.)裝箱

 Cof·fer n.
 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
    In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns.   --Shak.
 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
    He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake.   --Bacon.
    Hold, here is half my coffer.   --Shak.
 3. Arch. A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
 4. Fort. 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.
 5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
 Coffer dam. Engin. See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary.
 Coffer fish. Zool. See Cowfish.

 Cof·fer, v. t.
 1. To put into a coffer.
 2. Mining. To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
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 coffer
      n 1: an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome [syn: caisson,
            lacuna]
      2: a chest especially for storing valuables

 Coffer
    the receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the
    Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the
    emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Sam. 6:8, 11, 15).