penniless-bench

English

Noun

penniless-bench (usually uncountable, plural penniless-benches)

  1. (obsolete) A roadside bench.
    • 1963, A. D. R. Caroe, The House of the Royal Institution, page 9:
      There were quite a number of 'penniless benches' scattered round the country even as far north as Yorkshire, and the name is thought to have meant originally a resting place by the wayside for poor travellers, no doubt in this case ...

References

  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes
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