cist
/kɪst/ /sɪst
/(also kist)
noun
1 Archaeology An ancient coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree.He pointed at long flat slabs resting on stone kists....
- Some bodies were laid out straight, some crouched; some in stone cists, others in hollows in the rubble.
- Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant.
2A box used in ancient Greece for sacred utensils.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin cista, from Greek kistē 'box'; sense 1 via Welsh.
Rhymes
- fighter-bomber
- fighter jet
- fighter pilot
- fight fire with fire
- fighting
- fighting chair
- fighting chance
- fighting cock
- fighting fish
- fighting fit
- fighting fund
- fighting top
- fighting words
- fight like cat and dog
- fight one's corner
- fight or flight
- fight shy of
- fight someone/thing off
- fight tooth and nail
- fig leaf
- figment
- figmental
- fig parrot
- fig tree
- figura