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Kist   Listen
noun
Kist  n.  A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment. (India)






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"Kist" Quotes from Famous Books



... but a boy. It's twenty year sen. The plate and jewels used to be kept there, long ago, before the iron closet was made in the arras chamber, and he told me the key had a brass handle, and this ye say was found in the bottom o' the kist where she kept her old fans. Now, would not it be a queer thing if we found some spoons or diamonds forgot there? Ye mun come up wi' us, lassie, and ...
— Madam Crowl's Ghost and The Dead Sexton • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... mother then, 'That I have kist sae aft, Canna we save them frae their death, But sic a pryce ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various



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