noun
Meaning 1
A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
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noun
A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
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noun
An urn.
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Usage: UK
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noun
A coffin.
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Usage: Canada, US
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noun
A gasket.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
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Usage: poetic, transitive
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noun
small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jewel casket
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Broader terms: box
noun
box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: coffin
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Broader terms: box
Narrower terms: bier, sarcophagus
verb
enclose in a casket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: enclose, close in, inclose, shut in
History
Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Across languages
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.