chest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

   The clothes are kept in a chest.

2. 2
   noun

   The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

   You can take the money from the chest.

3. 3
   noun

   The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.

   Holonyms: torso, trunk < body

4. 4
   noun

   The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.

   Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk

5. 5
   noun

   A female human's breasts.

   He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.

6. 6
   noun

   A hit or blow made with one's chest.

   She scored with a chest into the goal.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   To handle, deal with.

   Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry.

Etymology

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”).