wagon seat

noun

, Furniture.

1. a plain, unupholstered settee, usually with a slat back, for use either indoors or in a wagon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wagon seat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

I took her from her mother and we settled on the wagon seat.

From Literature

There they rolled the body onto a wagon seat and, with a rope, dragged it to the top of the ravine, then laid it inside a wooden box, in the shade of a blackjack tree.

From Literature

Ma, with Baby Carrie in her arms, sat up on the wagon seat with Pa, and Laura and Mary sat on a board fastened across the wagon box behind the seat.

From Literature

Pa stopped the horses, and turned around on the wagon seat.

From Literature

He had swept the wagon box clean and laid a clean blanket on the wagon seat.

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