water bench

noun

1. a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.

Example Sentences

She flew into the schoolhouse to the water bench, and seizing the water bucket, flew out.

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He made his uncertain way to the water bench, took a great drink, and set about washing his face and hands, while the breakfast proceeded in silence.

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Van plunged out to the water bench, with its bucket, near the door.

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But it was two hours before Miss Forsythe gave over watching furtively the door, and it was daylight before Chip Emmett found a gray hat under the water bench—a hat which he finally recognized as Weary's and so appropriated to his own use.

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Then he had set the can down on the water bench beside the door and gone away.

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