- a variation of cist.
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.
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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 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
She rins to get her claes away, But—o' the kist the key's amissin!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 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 Augustus J. C. Hare
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 Francis Beaumont
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