deacon seat


noun

a bench running most of the length of a bunkhouse in a lumbering camp.

Origin of deacon seat

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example sentences from the Web for deacon seat

  • No one would notice him, however, till one night when he came in late, and undertook to sleep on the "deacon-seat."

    Earth's Enigmas |Charles G. D. Roberts