casket

nounverbattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈkæs.kɪt//
United Kingdom//ˈkɑː.skɪt//
United States//ˈkæs.kɪt//

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

noun

1
A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket. The Hunt for the Red Casked
2
An urn.
3
A coffin.
4
A gasket.

Etymology

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.

verb

1
To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
I have […] casketed my treasure.

Forms

plural: caskets
past tense: casketed
past participle: casketed
present participle: casketing
third person singular: caskets

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