Sentence:  A few days afterwards the coroner's jury sat on a <WSD>coffinful</WSD> of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased's death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The contents of a coffin.