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noun

Gest n.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. (Obs.)

A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. (Obs.)

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"Gest" Quotes from Famous Books

... he had been dropped into a post-hole. We remember too well the foolish and flippant mockery of Gay's "Life is a Jest." If I were dean of the cathedral, I should be tempted to alter the J to a G. Then we could read it without contempt; for life is a gest, an achievement,—or always ought to be. Westminster Abbey is too crowded with monuments to the illustrious dead and those who have been considered so in their day to produce any other than a confused impression. When we visit ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... afraid they would break down, but they dident, and people said they sung like night harks. i gess if they knowed how night harks sung they woodent say much. father felt pretty big and to hear him talk you wood think he did the singing. he give them ten cents apeace. i dident get none. you gest wait, old man ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various