The only use I know of it with that definition is "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the first Indiana Jones film. I know a couple of people who thought it was about someone who had mislaid a huge boat. ;-)
It's not just the Jews who use the word "ark" as a chest.
The Ark of the Covenant, said to be the chest containing the stone tablets on which the ten commandments were chiseled, is part of the Bible and thus Christian lore.
Is that the same Ark that was lost and subsequently raided, emsr2d2?
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