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Bench   /bɛntʃ/   Listen
Bench

noun
(pl. benches)
1.
A long seat for more than one person.
2.
A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below).  Synonym: terrace.
3.
Persons who administer justice.  Synonym: judiciary.
4.
A strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic.  Synonyms: work bench, workbench.
5.
The magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively.
6.
The reserve players on a team.
7.
(law) the seat for judges in a courtroom.
verb
(past & past part. benched; pres. part. benching)
1.
Take out of a game; of players.
2.
Exhibit on a bench.



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"Bench" Quotes from Famous Books



... of popular indignation. The Earl of Dorset asking a fellow who pleaded inability to lend money, of what trade he was, and being answered "a tailor," said: "Put down your name for such a sum; one snip will make amends for all!" The tailor quoted scripture abundantly, and shook the bench with laughter or with rage by his anathemas, till he was put fast into a messenger's hands. This was one Ball, renowned through the parish of St. Clement's; and not only a tailor, but a prophet. Twenty years after, tailors and prophets employed ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... boy, uniformed in blue and red, sprang from a bench where several others similarly clad ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown
... I brought up on the starboard side of the pilot-house and found a sextant lying on a bench. Now, I said, they "take the sun" through this thing; I should think I might see that vessel through it. I had hardly got it to my eye when someone touched me on the shoulder and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... 16th of March, 1892, Froude's old antagonist, Freeman, who had been Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford since Stubbs's elevation to the Episcopal Bench in 1884, died suddenly in Spain. The Prime Minister, who was also Chancellor of the University, offered the vacant Chair to Froude, and after some hesitation Froude accepted it. The doubt was due ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul
... pretending to that title." In that manifesto the Brethren assumed that their episcopal orders were on a par with those of the Church of England; and that assumption was accepted, without the slightest demur, not only by the Parliamentary Committee, but by the bench ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton


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