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  • verb Present participle of coffin.

Etymologies

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coffin +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • Don't go into the small chamber, they are coffining Bertred.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • But my husband was at the coffining of Huon de Domville yesterday, and then you were forced - were you not, wretch?

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • But my husband was at the coffining of Huon de Domville yesterday, and then you were forced - were you not, wretch?

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • Abbot Radulfus sanctions the use of an abbey chapel, your uncle's body can lie there when he is brought from the castle, and all due preparations will be made for his decent coffining.

    St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • Abbot Radulfus sanctions the use of an abbey chapel, your uncle's body can lie there when he is brought from the castle, and all due preparations will be made for his decent coffining.

    St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • He was engaged in his preparations for coffining Mme. de Lamotte, when a female creditor knocked insistently at the door.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • All the women were crying sore, and also some men whose eyes had been dry at the coffining of their children.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • Pike-Brown assassination case in New Hampshire, from the succoring and saving of the stranger Pike by the Browns, to the subsequent hanging and coffining of that treacherous miscreant.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • Pike-Brown assassination case in New Hampshire, from the succoring and saving of the stranger Pike by the Browns, to the subsequent hanging and coffining of that treacherous miscreant.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • -- [In this paragraph the fortune-teller details the exact history of the Pike-Brown assassination case in New Hampshire, from the succoring and saving of the stranger Pike by the Browns, to the subsequent hanging and coffining of that treacherous miscreant.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

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