CHESTED
Etymology
Verb
chested
simple past tense and past participle of chest
Adjective
chested
(usually, in combination) Having a chest (with a specified quality).
Usage notes
• Some combinations, such as "flat-chested", form comparative and superlative forms like "flatter-chested" and "flattest-chested". Other combinations, such as "barrel chested", form comparative and superlative forms like "more barrel-chested" and "most barrel-chested".
• Chested normally combines with an adjective or noun that modifies chest (as in ample-chested), but occasionally it stands alone as chested or is modified by an adverb (as in amply chested, which is a rarer variant of ample-chested).
Source: Wiktionary
Chest"ed, a.
Definition: Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested;
narrow-chested.
CHEST
Chest, n. Etym: [OE. chest, chist, AS. cest, cist, cyst, L. cista,
fr. Gr. Cist, Cistern.]
1. A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a
lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.
2. A coffin. [Obs.]
He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. Chaucer.
3. The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the
thorax.
4. (Com.)
Definition: A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are
transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
5. (Mech.)
Definition: A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam,
liguids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an
organ. Bomb chest, See under Bomb.
– Chest of drawers, a case or movable frame containing drawers.
Chest, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chested.]
1. To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
2. To place in a coffin. [Obs.]
He dieth and is chested. Gen. 1. 26 (heading).
Chest, n. Etym: [AS. ceást.]
Definition: Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition