"deathbox" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: deathboxes [plural]
Etymology: From death + box. Compare Dutch doodskist (literally “death-chest”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|death|box}} death + box, {{cog|nl|doodskist|lit=death-chest}} Dutch doodskist (literally “death-chest”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} deathbox (plural deathboxes)
  1. (nonstandard, kenning) coffin Tags: nonstandard Synonyms: death-box, death box
    Sense id: en-deathbox-en-noun-4iZlytaB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English kennings, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2002, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith",
          "text": "Once he was asleep again, they brought him back again, bound him, sealed him in his deathbox, muffled the World from him with a black, black pall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Philip Kaplan, Chariots of Fire",
          "text": "I always remember hearing infantry men say to us again and again: 'I wouldn't like to go in your deathboxes,' and we always answered: 'And we don't like to walk.'”",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Amaleka McCall, Hard Candy",
          "text": "Razor's mother hollered and spread her body atop her son's shiny death box. “Why, Lord? Why my chile?!” the woman screamed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Ian Watson, The Book of the Stars: Black Current, book 2",
          "text": "The local militia, led by their 'jack captain, paid their respects by carrying the death-box and by escorting it.",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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