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Casket

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.

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Bier 76% connected

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sarcophagus 76% connected

A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies depos…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Box 76% connected

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B.…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inclose 76% connected

To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Coffin 74% connected

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Coffin 74% connected

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Coffin 92% connected

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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