Definition of casket. Meaning of casket. Synonyms of casket

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Definition of casket

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Casket Cas"ket, n. (Naut.) A gasket. See Gasket.
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Casket Cas"ket, v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] ``I have casketed my treasure.' --Shak.
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Casket Cas"ket, n. [Cf. F. casquet, dim. of casque belmet, fr. Sp. casco.] 1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. --Shak. 2. A kind of burial case. [U. S.] 3. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (--Shak.) (b) The tomb. (--Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. --Shak.
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Gasket Gas"ket, n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.] 1. (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket. 2. (Mech.) (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps. (b) Any ring or washer of packing.

Meaning of casket from wikipedia

- up casket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Casket or caskets may refer to: Coffin, a box used for the display and interment of corpses Casket (decorative...
- sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded...
- Casket Mountain is a summit in Alberta, Canada. Casket Mountain was so named on account of a casket-shaped rock outcropping. "Casket Mountain". Geographical...
- Open Casket is a 2016 painting by Dana Schutz. The subject is Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old boy who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955...
- Strangers to Ourselves, was released in 2015 and their seventh, The Golden Casket, in 2021. When Isaac Brock was a teenager, he was emplo**** at a local family...
- Titan Casket is a direct-to-customer casket provider headquartered in Boston, M****achusetts. Titan Casket was founded in 2016 as a vendor on Amazon by...
- parti****nts who help carry the casket at a funeral. They may wear white gloves in order to prevent damaging the casket and to show respect to the deceased...
- casquette girl (French: fille à la c****ette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, was a woman brought from France to the French colonies...
- The Golden Casket is the seventh studio album by the American alternative rock band Modest Mouse, released on June 25, 2021, on Epic Records. Produced...
- performed without the remains of the deceased person. In both a closed casket funeral and a memorial service, photos of the deceased representing stages...