Casket vs. Coffin — What's the Difference?

A casket or jewelry box is a container that is usually smaller than a chest, and in the past were typically decorated.

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. The word took two different paths.

A small ornamental box or chest for holding jewels, letters, or other valued objects

A long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a dead body is buried or cremated

A coffin.

Put (a dead body) in a coffin

A small case or chest, as for jewels and other valuables.

An oblong box in which a corpse is buried.

To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.

The horny part of a horse's hoof.

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

To place in or as if in a coffin.

(Britain) An urn.

A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

(North America) A coffin.

(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.

(nautical) A gasket.

(archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

A kind of burial case.

A storage container for nuclear waste.

Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed

(transitive) To place in a coffin.

A gasket. See Gasket.

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

A basket.

Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

Small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables

A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Enclose in a casket

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Place into a coffin;