Noah Webster
Coffin
COFFIN, noun
1. The chest or box in which a dead human body is buried, or deposited in a vault.
2. A mold of paste for a pie.
3. A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers.
4. In farriery, the hollow part of a horses hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof.
COFFIN, verb transitive To put in or inclose in a coffin