pew chair

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• pew-chair — pewˈ chair noun An additional seat hinged to the end of a pew • • • Main Entry: ↑pew …   Useful english dictionary

• pew chair — noun : a seat hinged against the end of a pew to afford accommodation when needed in the aisle …   Useful english dictionary

• Pew — chair; any place to sit down: take a pew …   Dictionary of Australian slang

• chair — Synonyms and related words: Eames chair, Hitchcock chair, TV chair, administer, administrate, anoint, armchair, armless chair, authority, ax, back seat, banquette, bar stool, barber chair, barrel chair, basket chair, batwing chair, be master, bed …   Moby Thesaurus

• pew — n British a chair. A colloquialism usually heard in the verb form take a pew : sit down. This humorously elevated version of chair arose around the turn of the 20th century …   Contemporary slang

• chair — n 1. seat, bench, stool, sofa; armchair, fau teuil, Morris chair, easy chair, wing chair, rocking chair, Inf. rocker, Eames chair, (in ancient Greece) klismos; chairbed, chaise longue; wheelchair. See also bench, stool, sofa, seat . 2. pew, box,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• pew — Australian Slang chair; any place to sit down: take a pew …   English dialects glossary

• pew — /pju / (say pyooh) noun 1. (in a church) one of an assemblage of fixed bench like seats (with backs), accessible by aisles, for the use of the congregation. 2. an enclosed seat in a church, or an enclosure with seats, appropriated to the use of a …  

• The Pew Charitable Trusts — is an independent nonprofit and nongovernmental organization, founded in 1948. Its current mission is to serve the public interest by improving public policy, informing the public, and stimulating civic life. [… …   Wikipedia

• Glastonbury chair — is a 19th century term for an earlier wooden foldingFact|date=April 2008 chair, usually of oak, possibly based on a chair made for the last Abbot of Glastonbury, England. The Glastonbury chair was known to exist since the Early Middle Ages, but… …   Wikipedia

• seat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. chair, bench, howdah, etc. (see furniture); site, location, abode; villa, estate; membership; informal, buttocks, rump (see rear). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A structure on which one may sit] Syn. bench,… …   English dictionary for students