cushions

Noun

cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)

1. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
   • “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening &...
   1. (Commonwealth) A throw pillow.
   2. A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
2. A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
3. A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
4. The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.

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