Goffer vs Coffer - What's the difference?
goffer | coffer |
To make wavy; to crimp.
* 1985 , , A Maggot :
A strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome; a caisson.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.135:
A cofferdam.
A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
To put money or valuables in a coffer
To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
As verbs the difference between goffer and coffer
is that goffer is to make wavy; to crimp while coffer is to put money or valuables in a coffer.As a noun coffer is
a strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.goffer
English
Verb
- On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.
Anagrams
*coffer
English
Alternative forms
* copher (obsolete) * cophre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers .
- He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers .
- Hold, here is half my coffer .