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
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
He's taen Susie Pye by the white hand, And gently led her up and down; And ay as he kist her red rosy lips, "Ye're welcome, jewel, to your own."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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 Crashaw, Richard
"Weel brook ye o' your brown brown bride,135 Between ye and the stock; And sae will I o' my black black kist, That has neither key nor lock."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
"Mr. Liddell was speaking to an old Northumbrian here about the organ yesterday, and he said, 'I canna bear the loike o' that kist o' whistles a buzzin' in my ears.'"
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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