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Definition of Dicky-seat
1. Noun. A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater.
Generic synonyms: Backseat
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicky-seat
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Literary usage of Dicky-seat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky by Ernest Ingersoll (1885)
"... hard into the mail-sacks heaped upon the foot-board, clutched the hand-rail
of the seat, set my back against the knees of the man on tho dicky seat, ..."
2. A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolina: Consisting by Frederick Adolphus Porcher, Samuel Dubose (1887)
"They had a seat in the back ; in front was the dicky seat. When four horses were
used, as was frequently the case, the leaders were ..."
3. The Danubian Principalities: The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk by James Henry Skene (1854)
"... casting an amorous glance from time to time at the jack-boots, which he had
installed on his dicky-seat. I then went to look at the town. ..."
4. The New York Coach-maker's Magazine by Ezra M. Stratton, George Washington Wright Houghton (1859)
"My trunk was placed on the dicky-seat, and I sprang inside. " Drive to the Levee !"
I thundered, " as if your life depended on it. ..."
5. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme by Georgia Supreme Court (1855)
"... on deck, each 1 25 Carriages, four-wheel Coaches and standing top barouches,
each 20 00 do without dicky seat, 15 00 Buggies and buggy wagons, ..."
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