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caisson

[key-suhn, -son] / ˈkeɪ sən, -sɒn /
NOUN
wagon
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For years, members of the tiny preservation society — their ages now ranging from 60s to 80s — have flown out in helicopters, landing on the caisson.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 26, 2025

A soldier, gingerly, with almost mechanical precision, removed the silver urn containing Megellas’s cremated remains from the caisson and carried it to the gravesite.

From Washington Post Sep. 6, 2022

The next day, the casket was carried out of the Capitol, down the central stairs on the east side of the complex and strapped onto a waiting horse-drawn caisson.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2021

On November 11, 1921, the Unknown was placed on a horse-drawn caisson and carried in a procession through Washington, D.C. and across the Potomac River.

From Fox News Oct. 4, 2021

Crossing slowly in the rain a few feet above the flood, pressed tight in the crowd, the box of an artillery caisson just head, I looked over the side and watched the river.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway




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