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Definition of Flat bench
1. Noun. A bench on which a weightlifter lies to do exercises.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat Bench
Literary usage of Flat bench
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Resources of California: Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography by John Shertzer Hittell (1869)
"After dividing pincers into deep and shallow, the next classification will be
according to their topographical position, as into hill, flat, bench, bar, ..."
2. The Resources of California: Comprising the Society, Climate, Salubrity by John Shertzer Hittell (1874)
"Flat diggings are in a flat. Bench diggings are in a " bench," or narrow table
on the side of a hill above a river. Benches of this kind are not uncommon in ..."
3. The West: From the Census of 1880, a History of the Industrial , Commercial by Robert Percival Porter, William Patterson Jones, Henry Gannett (1882)
"Again, they may be classified, according to their position, as hill, flat, bench,
or bar placers. The first are those in which the pay-dirt is in or on a ..."
4. Modern Shop Practice: A General Reference Work by Howard Monroe Raymond, American Technical Society (1917)
"Small cores are made up on a flat bench, the sand being in a small pile at the back.
Larger boxes are rammed up on horses or on the floor, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... generally so fitted as to be worked under a flat bench, a part only of the
blade projecting through a narrow slit cut in the top of the bench. ..."
6. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"Above the spring and commanding the falls there is a 40-foot sandstone bluff
overhanging a narrow flat bench with a full southern exposure. ..."
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