Coffin

kof′in, n. the coffer or chest in which a dead body is enclosed.— v.t. to place within a coffin.— n. Coff′in-ship , a ship that is unsound, and likely to prove fatal to those in it.— Drive a nail in one's coffin , to do something tending to hasten death or ruin. [O. Fr. cofin —L. cophinus —Gr. kophinos .]