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mead-benches

mead-benches is the plural of mead-bench.

Meaning of mead-bench

Noun

mead-bench (plural mead-benches)

  1. (historical) A bench in a mead hall.
    • Gold is a constant element, gleaming solidly in underground vaults, on the breasts of queens or the arms and regalia of warriors on the mead-benches.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xvi

Questions about mead-benches

What is mead-benches the plural of?
Mead-benches is the plural of mead-bench.

Words near mead-benches in the dictionary

  1. mead horn
  2. mead moon
  3. mead moons
  4. Mead Valley
  5. mead-bench
  6. mead-benches
  7. mead-horn
  8. meadcup
  9. meade
  10. Meade County
  11. meaded

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