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Banker :: Banker (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.

Shopboard :: Shopboard (n.) A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.

Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

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

Bencher :: Bencher (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

Benched :: Benched (imp. & p. p.) of Benc.

Bench :: Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured..

Drosky :: Drosky (n.) A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities..

Alebench :: Alebench (n.) A bench in or before an alehouse.

Exigenter :: Exigenter (n.) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished.

Drawbench :: Drawbench (n.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench..

King''s Bench :: King's Bench () Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation..

Bencher :: Bencher (n.) An alderman of a corporation.

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length..

Bench :: Bench (v. t.) To furnish with benches.

Disbench :: Disbench (v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

Imbenching :: Imbenching (n.) A raised work like a bench.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission..

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