kist
Americannoun
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a coffer; a money chest.
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any chestlike container; a box, trunk, or basket.
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a coffin, especially a stone one; a sarcophagus.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of kist
1300–50; Middle English kiste < Old Norse kista chest
Example Sentences
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Brebbia, activated from the 60-day injured kist before the game, underwent surgery on June 1, 2020, while with St. Louis.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2021
The mashlom bannock is amang the meal, in the kist.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
He neither kist her whan he cam, Nor clappit her when he gaed; And in and at her bower window,75 The moon shone like the gleed.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The great tumulus at Carne was opened in 1855, and within was found a kist-vaen of unhewn stones, covered with limestone boulders; but in the kist were only ashes, pieces of charcoal, and burnt dust.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. Dawson Scott
Had thy cold pencil kist her pen,20 Thou couldst not so vnkindly err To show vs this faint shade for her.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
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