A casket?

[bigscoop]

I don't know, I've just never heard women, or men for that fact, use the term casket to describe that little chest or box where they put their jewels or valuables? But if you do, apparently you're dead on, pardon the pun. Was researching "casket" online and several sources defined it as a small box or chest that holds jewels or valuables.

[FarmerChick]

I never heard of a basement described as a vault? huh

sure all these have tons of meanings I would think, casket is probably more olden times you would say for a small chest, cause they probably burned you or stuck you in the ground without a casket. Now a casket is definitely meaning dead and buried inthe ground. In fact you can't bury someone without a casket, can you??

[DigginThePast]

I thought the term casket was always synonymous coffin. Women and men started using the term casket when referring to women's jewelry chests upon being married as this is where the women chose to put the family jewels; and the men now felt dead.

[bigscoop]

I thought the term casket was always synonymous coffin. Women and men started using the term casket when referring to women's jewelry chests upon being married as this is where the women chose to put the family jewels; and the men now felt dead.

"Jewelry chest".......ah.......I just had a thought/vison but I'm not going there.