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Definition of Benched
1. bench [v] - See also: bench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benched
Literary usage of Benched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Middle-English Dictionary by Francis Henry Stratmann (1891)
"... benched, pple., furnished with, seated on benches; benched (pple.) Сн. TRO.
ii. 822; ¡benched PL. CR. ..."
2. The History of the Church & Manor of Wigan in the County of Lancaster by George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman (1889)
"... wainscotted & benched the two windows in the stone Chamber, & made wainscot
portals for the Abbot's Chamber (since termed the nursery), the chamber over ..."
3. Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams: Being a Practical Treatise on by William Lumisden Strange (1913)
"benched Foundations of the Dam.—The whole seat of the dam outside the puddle
trench should be stripped of unreliable soil and fissured rock where that is ..."
4. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"This tape remained in reserve (benched) for the checking ofall other measuring
devices.1 b) K&E ... Checked against benched tape (a) and against each other. ..."
5. Gardening (1905)
"Seed was sown August 20, and the plants were benched November 7. The first ripe
fruit was picked December 24 from each of the varieties Combination, ..."
6. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1799)
"... one cubit benched-in one cubit; and from thence, being 30 cubits ... it did
rife three cubits, and benched-in two cubits; from whence it did rife one ..."
7. The Saga Library by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (1894)
"Thereafter the king journeyed down to the sea and betook himself a-shipboard.
He had a twenty-benched longship from Gunnar of ..."
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