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deacon seat † 
a long bench in a bunkhouse, especially in a lumber camp.
See also: bunkhouse
- 1872 In front of the fire on one side, and running the whole length of the camp, is a bench, hewn out of spruce or fir; this bench is termed the "deacon seat"; behind it the men sleep in a row, on fir boughs, with one long rug under and another over them.
- 1925 . . . when the food was cleared away to one end of the [lumber shanty's] table, some of the men sat down again and played poker, for matches, while others sat on the Deacon seat, and joked or told stories.
- 1965 Along three sides of the single room ran double or even treble tiers of bunks, below which stood the benches or "deacon seats" on which the men sharpened their tools, mended their harness, ate their meals and took their ease. . . .
- 1872 In front of the fire on one side, and running the whole length of the camp, is a bench, hewn out of spruce or fir; this bench is termed the "deacon seat"; behind it the men sleep in a row, on fir boughs, with one long rug under and another over them.