chest

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”). Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).

noun

1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
   The clothes are kept in a chest.
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
   You can take the money from the chest.
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.
   She had a sudden pain in her chest.
6. (euphemistic) female human's breasts
7. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
   He scored with a chest into the goal.

verb

1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
   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. January 23, 2011, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC
2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).

noun

1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.