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

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

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The boss of the choppers moved along to give Wade the end of the “deacon seat,” and grinned amiably.

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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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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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