Lexicographical Neighbors of Chesting
Literary usage of Chesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1903)
"... or 'chesting' service seems to be the now expiring remains of the lich-wake—the
dead ... was present at the " chesting " to see the act carried out, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"Were you present at the corpse» chesting ?" " Yes, I was. ... Well, then, since
it must be so : That day, at the chesting, the Doctor took me aside, ..."
3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"... by passing the cloth through the rollers ; chesting, or rolling cloth on the
... by the stripping motion, öfter the operation of chesting or mangling. ..."
4. Reports of Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary: From 1826 to 1829 by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, David Syme (1829)
"It was afterwards proposed to open the body after the chesting, to examine the
body and see if poison ... Heard Lovie object to opening, after the chesting. ..."
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