casket

Plural: caskets

Noun

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
An urn.
A coffin.
A gasket.

Verb

Verb Forms: casketed, casketing, caskets

To place a body in a coffin for burial.
enclose in a casket
To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

Examples

He hoped to CASKET his opponent’s chances of winning with a clever seven-letter word.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

coffin, jewel casket

Scrabble Score: 12

casket: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
casket: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
casket: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

casket: valid Words With Friends Word