Definition of Coffers. Meaning of Coffers. Synonyms of Coffers

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Definition of Coffers

Coffer
Coffer Cof"fer, v. t. 1. To put into a coffer. --Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. --Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

Meaning of Coffers from wikipedia

- ceiling: the strength of the structure is in the framework of the coffers. The stone coffers of the ancient Gr****s and Romans are the earliest surviving examples...
- pope Clement VI, entrenched French dominance of the Church and opened its coffers to enhance the regal splendour of the Papacy. He recruited composers and...
- reformed the coinage, which brought considerable revenue into the royal coffers. All these efforts had an enormous influence on the economic and cultural...
- successor, Innocent XII, to implement austere measures to restore the papal coffers. Despite his brief papacy, during which little of importance was undertaken...
- "express car". This job included guarding the safe or other strongboxes or coffers against outlaws, and memorizing the safe's combination to use at delivery...
- the galloping inflation, avoiding the permanent deficit, and filling the coffers of Spanish Monarchy. De la Cerda's policies achieved one of the largest...
- bacini inside the arches, wall ornaments made of round or diamond-shaped coffers), their connections to the Duomo, the grand "overture" of the style, are...
- his cir****navigation raised an enormous amount of money for England's coffers, and investors received a return of some 5,000 percent. Thus started an...
- dynasty greatly expanded; however constant warfare had depleted the empire's coffers. Emperor Zhao, under the tutelage of Huo, took the initiative and lowered...
- period of the Aegean civilization, when they took the form of ceramic coffers designed to imitate wooden chests, perhaps on the pattern of Egyptian linen...