deacon seat

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of deacon seat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Formerly the deacon seat was used instead of a table, and a large frying-pan served for a platter for the whole crew.

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He was laid upon the deacon seat, and the wound was sewed up by one of the crew with a common sewing-needle.

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Directly over the foot-pole, running parallel with it, and in front of the fire, is the "deacon seat."

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Letter-writing receives attention on this day, if at all, with no other than the deacon seat, perhaps, for a writing-desk, a sheet of soiled paper, ink dried and thick, or pale from freezing, and a pen made with a jack-knife; letters are dedicated to a wife, it may be, or to a mother by some dutiful son, or to his lady-love by some young swamper.

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Bestride the deacon seat, a little removed, sits the cook, with a large pan between his knees, with shirt-sleeves furled, and in the dough to his elbows, kneading a batch of bread to bake for breakfast.

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