Another word for coffin

coffin Synonyms

coffin

box, casket, sarcophagus, pine box, catafalque, pall, burial urn, funerary urn, funerary vase, funerary box, mummy case, ossuary; see also grave 1.

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It was a coffin with bones inside.
He lugged the coffin to the new portal and shoved it through.
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.
It is not therefore larceny to steal a corpse, but any removal of the coffin or grave-cloths is otherwise, such remaining the property of the persons who buried the body.
That he was of short stature is proved by the length of the coffin in which his body is still preserved, less than 5 ft.

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