A coffin; the grave. Gray calls the grave a “narrow cell.”
“Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
Elegy.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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