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mead bench

mead bench is the alternative form 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

Forms of mead bench

pluralmead benches

Questions about mead bench

What is mead bench the alternative form of?
Mead bench is the alternative form of mead-bench.

Words near mead bench in the dictionary

  1. Meaco
  2. meacock
  3. meacocks
  4. meaconing
  5. mead
  6. mead bench
  7. mead benches
  8. mead hall
  9. mead halls
  10. mead horn
  11. mead moon

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