Clues for the word "COFFER"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 42 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on August 08, 2024.
Definition of coffer
- n. - A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
- n. - Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
- n. - A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
- n. - A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
- n. - The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
- v. t. - To put into a coffer.
- v. t. - To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
- v. t. - To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
Referring Clues
- Strongbox
- Strong-box
- Valuables holder
- Vault
- Child's beginning to get tender chest
- Money chest
- Chest for valuables
- Chest
- Treasure chest
- Careful opening bid for chest
- Chest, or one clearing it we hear
- Chest is tender after cold
- Collector's opening bid for chest
- Box camera originally taken by volunteer
- Chest getting tender after onset of cold
- Chest gets tender after cold
- Chest carefully opened by volunteer
- Many a proposition may have money in it
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - August 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 30, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 19, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 08, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 09, 2022
- Daily Quick - January 30, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - October 30, 2017
- Daily Quick - October 10, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 18, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - June 08, 2017
- Daily Quick - June 03, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - April 27, 2017
- LA Times - January 15, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 30, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 16, 2016
- Guardian Quick - January 28, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - November 09, 2015
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2015
- Evening Standard Quick - July 16, 2015
- New York Times - April 19, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - May 15, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - October 24, 2010
- Guardian Everyman - March 01, 2009
- And in 12 more crossword puzzles...