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Bench   /bɛntʃ/   Listen
noun
Bench  n.  (pl. benches)  
1.
A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. "Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs."
2.
A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
3.
The seat where judges sit in court. "To pluck down justice from your awful bench."
4.
The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
5.
A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
6.
A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. See bench mark in the vocabulary.
Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assembled in council.
Bench plane, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes.
Bench show, an exhibition of dogs.
Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.


verb
Bench  v. t.  (past & past part. benched; pres. part. benching)  
1.
To furnish with benches. "'T was benched with turf." "Stately theaters benched crescentwise."
2.
To place on a bench or seat of honor. "Whom I... have benched and reared to worship."


Bench  v. i.  To sit on a seat of justice. (R.)





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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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