Meaning & use
cist
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A small stone-lined box or chamber used in ancient times to hold a burial, especially in prehistoric Europe.
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Archaeologists uncovered a Bronze Age cist containing pottery and bone fragments.
The hillside burial mound held several stone cists arranged in a circle.
A note on using this word
Cist is a specialized archaeological term and is easily confused with the unrelated medical word 'cyst'; the two are pronounced similarly but spelled and defined differently.
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