'Coffer fish' definitions:

Definition of 'Coffer fish'

From: GCIDE

Coffer \Cof"fer\ (?; 115), n. [OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr. Gr. ?. Cf. Coffin, n.]
1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Hold, here is half my coffer. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. [1913 Webster]
4. (Fort.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. [1913 Webster]
5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. [1913 Webster]
Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary.
Coffer fish. (Zool.) See Cowfish. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Trunkfish \Trunk"fish`\, n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Cowfish \Cow"fish`\ (kou"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.) (a) The grampus. (b) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii). (c) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish. [1913 Webster]