n. A basket.n. A mold of paste for a pie; the crust of a pie. See custard-coffin.n. The chest, box, or case; in which a dead human body is placed for burial: usually made of wood or lead, but sometimes of stone or iron, or even of glass.n. A paper twisted in the form of a cone, used as a bag by grocers; a cap or cornet.n. In farriery, the hollow part of a horse's hoof, or the whole hoof below the coronet, including the coffin-bone.n. In printing: The wooden frame which inclosed the stone or bed of the old form of hand printing-press.n. The frame which incloses an imposing-stone.n. In milling, one of the sockets in the eye of the runner, which receives the end of the driver.n. In mining, old workings open to the day; where the ore was raised to the surface by the cast-after-cast method.n. In ceramics, same as cassette.To cover with paste or crust. See coffin, n., 2; also extract under baked-meat, 2.To put or inclose in a coffin, as a corpse; hence, figuratively, to confine; shut up.