casket
/ˈkæs.kɪt/ noun, verb
Forms caskets casketing casketed
- noun A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- noun (UK) An urn.
- noun (Canada, US) A coffin.
- noun (nautical) A gasket.
- verb (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
Synonyms
Etymology
Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak.
- noun A kind of burial case. [U. S.]
- noun A gasket. See Gasket.
- verb To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] "I have casketed my treasure." Shak.
Etymology [Cf. F. casquet, dim. of casque belmet, fr. Sp. casco.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “casket”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details