casket
English
Etymology
Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask[1][2], thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/, /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/
- Rhymes: -æskɪt, (UK) -ɑːskɪt
Noun
casket (plural caskets)
- A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
- They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
- The Hunt for the Red Casked
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
- (Britain) An urn.
- (Canada, US) A coffin.
- (nautical) A gasket.
Derived terms
- casket magazine
Translations
little box e.g. for jewelry
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urn
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coffin — see coffin
Verb
casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)
- (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:
- I have […] casketed my treasure.
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Related terms
- cask
References
- https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/casket
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casket
Anagrams
- sacket