sea chest

English

Noun

sea chest (plural sea chests)

1. (nautical) A box or case used to store a sailor's property.

   Synonym: seaman's chest

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow — a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, […]

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 183:

     Now and then he slipped down into the hold and looked at his watch, which he had shut up in a large, red-painted sea-chest.

2. (nautical) A recess in the hull of a ship, usually rectangular or cylindrical.

Anagrams

• escheats