Definition of "chest"

chest¹

/t͡ʃɛst/

noun
plural chests
1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
  Quotations
  But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
4. A chest of drawers.
5. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
6. (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.
7. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
verb
third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested
1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
  Quotations
  Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.
  2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC‎
2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

chest²

/t͡ʃɛst/

noun
plural chests
1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

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