casket

6 definitions found

casket - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gasket \Gas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta
     caburn, garceta reef point.]
     1. (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail
        securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets
        are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also
        casket.
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     2. (Mech.)
        (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the
            steam engine and its pumps.
        (b) Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material,
            used to make joints impermeable to fluids.
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  Casket \Cas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. casquet, dim. of casque belmet, fr.
     Sp. casco.]
     1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental
        character, as for jewels, etc.
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              The little casket bring me hither.    --Shak.
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     2. A kind of burial case. [U. S.]
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     3. Anything containing or intended to contain something
        highly esteemed; as:
        (a) The body. (--Shak.)
        (b) The tomb. (--Milton).
        (c) A book of selections. [poetic]
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                  They found him dead . . . an empty casket.
                                                    --Shak.
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  Casket \Cas"ket\, n. (Naut.)
     A gasket. See Gasket.
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  Casket \Cas"ket\, v. t.
     To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] "I have
     casketed my treasure." --Shak.
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casket - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  casket
      n 1: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: coffin,
           casket]
      2: small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other
         valuables [syn: casket, jewel casket]
      v 1: enclose in a casket

casket - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "casket":
     bottle up, box, box in, box up, burial case, cabin, case, chest,
     cloister, closet, coffer, coffin, confine, container, cramp, crib,
     encase, entomb, immure, kist, mummy case, receptacle, sarcophagus,
     straiten