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What is a coffer-dam?

What is a coffer-dam? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (engineering) A type of watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
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The overhaul includes three new docks and a new coffer-dam which would allow ship building and wind turbine and blade manufacture to take place on-site.
He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam.
That is what he telegraphed me when he lost the coffer-dam in the Susquehanna.

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