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Casket

//ˈkæs.kɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

    "They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket. The Hunt for the Red Casked"

  2. 2
    small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables wordnet
  3. 3
    An urn. British
  4. 4
    box in which a corpse is buried or cremated wordnet
  5. 5
    A coffin. Canada, US
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  1. 6
    A gasket.
Verb
  1. 1
    To put into, or preserve in, a casket. poetic, transitive

    "I have […] casketed my treasure."

  2. 2
    enclose in a casket wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.

Etymology 2

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.

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