Usually means: Burial chamber made from stone.
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  1. cist: Merriam-Webster
  2. cist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cist, cist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cist, cist, cist: Wordnik
  6. cist: Wiktionary
  7. cist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cist: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cist, cist: Dictionary.com
  10. Cist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Cist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Cist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. cist: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cist: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. cist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Cist: Urban Dictionary

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  1. CIST: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

Definitions from Wiktionary (cist)

noun:  (historical, Ancient Greece) A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.
noun:  (archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.

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