coffin

 
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfɪn/

noun

  • a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a dead body is buried or cremated: they lowered her coffin into the ground
  • informal an old and unsafe aircraft or ship: a clapped-out one-gun flying coffin

verb (coffins, coffining, coffined)

[with object]
  • put (a dead body) in a coffin: the young man was coffined decently

Origin:

Middle English (in the general sense 'box, casket'): from Old French cofin 'little basket or case', from Latin cophinus (see coffer)