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
Words nearby deacon seat
deaccelerate,
deaccession,
deacetylate,
deacidify,
deacon,
deacon seat,
deaconess,
deaconry,
deactivate,
deacylase,
dead
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