wagon seat

American

noun

Furniture.

a plain, unupholstered settee, usually with a slat back, for use either indoors or in a wagon.

Etymology

Origin of wagon seat

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

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“I know,” Mama said as she climbed to the wagon seat, “but I don’t care. I brought it home anyway. I want it hung on the wall in our home where I can see it every day—and be thankful.”

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I took her from her mother and we settled on the wagon seat.

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He had swept the wagon box clean and laid a clean blanket on the wagon seat.

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Ma, with Baby Carrie in her arms, sat up on the wagon seat with Pa, and Laura and Mary sat on a board fastened across the wagon box behind the seat.

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Pa stopped the horses, and turned around on the wagon seat.

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