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a wooden lie pirates rarely buried and even more rarely drew maps for.
means A sturdy box or chest used to store valuables, money, or precious objects — especially the iconic lidded coffer associated with pirates and buried riches.
from A simple compound of two old words. "Treasure" travels from Latin "thesaurus" (a hoard, a storehouse) through Old French "tresor" into English. "Chest" comes from Old English "cest," itself borrowed from Latin "cista" (a box or basket), a cousin of Greek "kistē." So the phrase literally means "a box for a hoard" — though the romantic image of a barnacled trunk overflowing with doubloons owes far more to adventure fiction, especially Stevenson's "Treasure Island," than to actual pirate practice.
- buried myth
- Pirates almost never buried loot, they spent it
- real cargo
- Actual chests held tools, food, not gold
- booby traps
- Spring-loaded poison needles guarded some real strongboxes
- word origin
- Treasure comes from Greek thesauros, a storehouse
captain kidd's treasure — scottish pirate allegedly buried gold and jewels on gardiners island, new york in 1698
oak island money pit — legendary buried treasure site in nova scotia, canada searched continuously since 1795