What's the difference between coffin and hearsecloth?

Coffin


Definition:

  • (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
  • (n.) A basket.
  • (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  • (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  • (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  • (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
  • (2) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
  • (3) Harry also spoke about walking behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old and said no child “should be asked to do that under any circumstances”.
  • (4) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (5) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
  • (6) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
  • (7) About 60 coffins were expected, although the number was not immediately confirmed.
  • (8) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People carry the coffin of Giulio Regeni during his funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, on 12 February.
  • (10) Another man, placed in what he called "the electric coffin" – in which a detainee is forced to lie inside a wooden box, across two metal plates through which they pass a current.
  • (11) "Each decade," he continued, "we shiftily declare we have buried class; each decade the coffin stays empty."
  • (12) The board’s chief executive, Peter Deague, told Guardian Australia that meant they could cater to anyone who weighed up to 250kg, as a coffin for a person of that size usually weighed about 100kg.
  • (13) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
  • (14) He was still able to have a good conversation with me.” The PSNI is also investigating the firing of shots by the New IRA over the coffin of a veteran west Belfast republican on Sunday night.
  • (15) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
  • (16) The final nail in social security's coffin came with the demise of the Department of Social Security in 2001 and its replacement by the Department for Work and Pensions.
  • (17) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
  • (18) If you want a coffin, alternatives to the regular chipboard, veneered box are now mainstream and in all good undertakers’ catalogues.
  • (19) This study ought to be the final nail in the coffin of techno-libertarianism.
  • (20) There is no formation of callus at the site of the fracture, but only a firm formation of fibrous tissue which does not bother the horse unless the fragments are too much dislocated giving rise to a greater destruction of the coffin joint.

Hearsecloth


Definition:

  • (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

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