noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wooden
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Forty-two extended inhumations, several with wooden coffins , were examined, 14 in the northern and 28 in the southern plot.
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The deceased were placed in wooden coffins or wrapped in felt.
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But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys.
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Grave gifts were typically pots, and traces of wooden coffins have been discovered.
■ NOUN
lead
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Not all lead coffins destined for vaults were provided with outer wooden cases.
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Perhaps, like the lead coffin of Osiris, which suffered a similar fate, it is the real secret of alchemy.
lid
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Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape.
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When my father threw in the first handful of dirt, I heard the pebbles dance on the coffin lid .
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As the drumming built to a crescendo, the coffin lid snapped open, scattering coins into the dust.
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Some of them dabbed their eyes with handkerchiefs, others stared very seriously at the coffin lid .
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The sound was as final as the closing of a coffin lid .
■ VERB
bury
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When the corpse arrived at Grinton churchyard it was buried without a coffin in a linen shroud.
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Although it had been buried without a coffin , it was found perfectly preserved.
carry
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Following him were four men carrying a coffin .
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I carried the coffin of Cesar Chavez.
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I asked McCluskey and four of his men to join me in carrying the coffin out.
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The youngest, Benny, although only thirteen, walked with his brothers, carrying the coffin .
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The pair turned on him after he spotted them carrying the coffin through High Wycombe, Bucks, at midnight.
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The undertaker then takes over, makes up our faces and carries the coffin to the crematorium.
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Flash back colleagues carry Wayne Edwards' coffin at his funeral in January.
lay
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We laid him in his coffin on the spare-room bed.
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For many years she lay in the coffin , but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.
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The body is laid out in a coffin resting on a bed of bran or sawdust.
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The six-foot metal cylinders that breathed for patients lay like coffins on stands that raised them to table height.
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On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie's coffin .
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To me Hugh lay in his coffin .
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Beria therefore had a vital interest in seeing Stalin laid into a coffin , and there were rumours that he murdered him.
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She took me into the first-floor front room, where my father had already been laid out in his coffin .
lie
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On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie's coffin .
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For many years she lay in the coffin , but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.
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To me Hugh lay in his coffin .
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Their withered skeletal bodies lie in half-opened coffins beneath sheets of glass.
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We bury our noblemen there, except that they have to lie at present without coffins .
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The six-foot metal cylinders that breathed for patients lay like coffins on stands that raised them to table height.
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Seeing him lying in a coffin with a stake through his heart might go some way to convince me.
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On the morning of the funeral, he gave her a last farewell kiss as she lay in her coffin .
lower
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I wept when they lowered her coffin into the ground.
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I watched the men lower the coffin into the ground and watched them draw their earth-stained ropes up again.
open
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Some parents discover the truth by opening the sealed coffins delivered to them for burial.
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The grave was opened and her coffin was placed upon that of her husband.
place
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They saw little point in diagnosis after the patient had been placed in the coffin .
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The body was reclothed in a fresh habit and was placed in a new coffin .
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The deceased were placed in wooden coffins or wrapped in felt.
put
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In this way the body was put into the coffin wearing just a shift and bonnet.
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South Carolina put him in his coffin .
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They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker.
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In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse, but he did not know that.
seal
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Some parents discover the truth by opening the sealed coffins delivered to them for burial.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nail in sb's/sth's coffin
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A final nail in the coffin had been hammered in by Wrede.
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Another loss would be another nail in Branfoots managerial coffin.
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For me this was the final nail in the coffin of a terminally dull product.
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In the end, it was also the issue which secured a vital nail in the coffin of Britain's nuclear dream.
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Industry observers fear that this would be another nail in the coffin of the independent record industry.
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It also is one more nail in the coffin of formal decor.
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It is another nail in the coffin of deterrence even if the first generation of cruise will be slow for such a role.
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Was not the film's very name, Last Resort, another nail in Margate's coffin?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin , and four to six people to carry it.
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And the heart-rending tragedy of the tiny coffins of a family of victims?
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By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets.
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His aging friends felt as if they were looking into their own open coffins.
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His imperious father tells Alex he wishes it were him in the coffin .
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Of course, I thought, it's the ashes of the coffin as well, so it would be quite a weight.
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On the way past the coffin Margaret bowed and kissed the lid.
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Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out.