treasure chest

Definition

A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.

Example Sentences

• "They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]"
• "The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest."
• "When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide."