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chest

/t͡ʃɛst/ noun C2
  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

Plural chests

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A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
The Jungle Book, p. 56 · B2
Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 114 · B2
He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children’s toys are kept in.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 3 · B2
“At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 22 · B2

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