Coffin vs. Hearse

Coffinnoun

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

Hearsenoun

A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age.

Coffinnoun

(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.

Hearsenoun

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.

Coffinnoun

(obsolete) A basket.

Hearsenoun

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

Coffinnoun

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

Hearsenoun

A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

Coffinnoun

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

Hearsenoun

A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

Coffinnoun

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

Hearseverb

(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Coffinverb

(transitive) To place in a coffin.

Hearsenoun

A hind in the second year of its age.

Coffinnoun

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

‘They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin.’;

Hearsenoun

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.

Coffinnoun

A basket.

Hearsenoun

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

‘Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.’; ‘Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse.’;

Coffinnoun

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

‘Of the paste a coffin I will rear.’;

Hearsenoun

A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

‘Set down, set down your honorable load,It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.’;

Coffinnoun

A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Hearsenoun

A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.

Coffinnoun

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

Hearseverb

To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Coffinverb

To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

‘Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?’; ‘Devotion is not coffined in a cell.’;

Hearsenoun

a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle

Coffinnoun

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Hearse

A hearse is a large vehicle, especially an automobile, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin/casket at a funeral, wake, or memorial service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to very formal heavily decorated vehicles.

Coffinverb

place into a coffin;

‘her body was coffined’;

Coffinnoun

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

‘they lowered her coffin into the ground’;

Coffinnoun

an old and unsafe aircraft or ship

‘a clapped-out one-gun flying coffin’;

Coffinverb

put (a dead body) in a coffin

‘the young man was coffined decently’;

Coffin

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