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Noun
sea chest (plural sea chests)
- (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.
- (nautical) A recess in the hull of a ship, usually rectangular or cylindrical.
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