Casket

//ˈkæs.kɪt// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

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

Synonyms

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Example

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"The priest made the sign of the cross as the casket was lowered into the ground."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

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