< Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)
CHEST, in commerce, a kind of measure, which contains an uncertain quantity of various commodities. Thus, a chest of sugar holds from 10 to 15 cwt.; a chest of glass from 2 to 300 cubic feet; of Castile soap, from 212 to 3 cwt.; of indigo, from 112 to 2 cwt.; computed at five score to the hundred.
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