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cist
1[ sist ]
noun
- a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
cist
2[ sist, kist ]
noun
- a prehistoric sepulchral tomb or casket.
cist
1/ ɪ /
noun
- a wooden box for holding ritual objects used in ancient Rome and Greece
cist
2/ ɪ /
noun
- archaeol a box-shaped burial chamber made from stone slabs or a hollowed tree trunk
Other Word Forms
- Ļ adjective
- t adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cist1
Origin of cist2
Example Sentences
In September 2017, a farmer near Rock, Northumberland, preparing his field for drainage discovered a burial cist - or stone coffin - containing a skeleton and a jug.
But they realized the pact had a warming downside too, says David Fahey, a physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
“There’s so much variation in how they are positioned,” she said, “between whether they are cremated or buried; whether they are within a tomb, or a chamber, or a cist or a pit grave; whether they are placed face down or face up.”
The cist contained a finely-decorated beaker which had held food or drink for the deceased's journey into the afterlife.
The skeleton of "Thankerton Man" was found in a stone cist - a type of burial chamber - at Boatbridge Quarry, Thankerton, South Lanarkshire, in 1970.
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