A wooden stand or frame designed to hold and display chess pieces when not in play.
A compound of 'chess' and 'tree,' where 'tree' is used in its older sense of a wooden stand or framework (as in 'coat tree'). The term combines the game with the furniture concept.
The word 'tree' for a stand or rack is almost forgotten now, but it survives in 'Christmas tree,' 'coat tree,' and oddly specific terms like 'chesstree'—showing how one word can have totally different meanings in different contexts.
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