kist
noun
[ kɪst ]
• a chest used for storing clothes and linen.
• variant spelling of cist.
Origin:
Middle English: northern English form of chest.
cist
noun
• an ancient coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree.
• a box used in ancient Greece for sacred utensils.
Origin:
early 19th century: from Latin cista, from Greek kistē ‘box’; sense 1 via Welsh.
