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
I wish that horn were in my kist, 10 Ba, ba, &c.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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
In 1900, when digging for the foundations of a house, an oblong slate kist, lying north and south, and containing a "crouched" burial, was found.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by Scott, C. A. Dawson
"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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