Definition of "kist"

kist¹

noun
plural kists
1. (Scotland) A chest.
  Quotations
  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
2. (Scotland) A coffin.
3. (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”)
  Quotations
  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
verb
third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted
1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.