kist

[ kist ]

/ kɪst /

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noun Scot. and North England.

a coffer; a money chest.

any chestlike container; a box, trunk, or basket.

a coffin, especially a stone one; a sarcophagus.

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Origin of kist

1300–50; Middle English kiste <Old Norse kista chest

Words nearby kist

kiss of life, kiss of peace, kisspeptin, kissy, kissy-face, kist, Kistna, kistvaen, Kisumu, kiswah, Kiswahili

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How to use kist in a sentence

It was reached to me; I tooke it and embraced it in mine arms, and with teares in my eyes kist the Pommel of it.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts|Rosalind Northcote
Theyr bodyes, bathed in purple gore, They bare with them away: They kist them dead a thousand times, Ere they were cladd in clay.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 3|Various
And twentye times, with watery eyes, He kist her tender cheeke, Untill he had revivde againe Her senses milde and meeke.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 1|Various
And how every where you are fawn'd upon, imbrac'd and kist, receiving all manner of friendship!
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682)|A. Marsh

"Here it is," said Cleve, pausing before the recess in which this antique kist is placed.
The Tenants of Malory|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

British Dictionary definitions for kist (1 of 3)

kist¹

/ (kɪst) /

noun Scot and Northern English dialect

a large chest or coffer

Word Origin for kist

C14: from Old Norse kista; see chest

British Dictionary definitions for kist (2 of 3)

kist²

/ (kɪst) /

noun

archaeol a variant spelling of cist 2

British Dictionary definitions for kist (3 of 3)

kist³

/ (kɪst) /

noun

Southern African a large wooden chest in which linen is stored, esp one used to store a bride's trousseau

Word Origin for kist

from Afrikaans, from Dutch: chest

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