Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Chest

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 2 1/2 to 3 cwt.; of indigo, from 1 1/2 to 2 cwt.; computed at five score to the hundred.