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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

Eyer’s body in a flag-draped coffin was brought from police headquarters on a horse-drawn caisson three blocks to the church where the late evangelist Billy Graham held his first crusade.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

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

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

Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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