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
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
"Gin the younker sae lang in the sea has been, 90 And greens for hame and land, Then I'll gie him a kist wi' goud, Sae fitting till his hand."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Fareweel, fareweel, thou falsest youth That ever kist a woman's mouth; Let never any after me25 Submit unto thy courtesy!
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 Richard Crashaw
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