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• a variation of cist.

kist

American  

[kist] / kɪst /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. a coffer; a money chest.

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

3. a coffin, especially a stone one; a sarcophagus.

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kist ¹ British  

/ kɪst /

noun

1. a large chest or coffer

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kist ² British  

/ kɪst /

noun

1. archaeol a variant spelling of cist 2

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kist ³ British  

/ kɪst /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of kist

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

Example Sentences

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kist

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

I was passin' thro' the barn the morn," he began, "and saw the gardener packin' the auld kist that lies on the barn floor, with tools, seeds, roots and herbs.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

The mashlom bannock is amang the meal, in the kist.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

She ne're commanded A hundred thousand men, as I have done, Nor ne're won battel; Say I would have kist her.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis

The kist was 2 feet 9½ inches long, and 1 foot 7 inches wide.

From Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys by Farrer, James Anson