Noun: kist
Sample Sentences
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the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […] [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17:]
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The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents. [2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like kist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh See: Old Norse Nouns '
kista'.