Meaning of sea chest | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A box or case used to store a sailor's property.
2. A recess in the hull of a ship, usually rectangular or cylindrical.

Examples

“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, […]”

“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.”

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