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▪ I. seater|ˈsiːtə(r)|
[f. seat n. and v. + -er.]
†1. N. Amer. ? One who apportions the sittings in a meeting-house. Obs. rare.
1713S. Sewall Diary 4 May (1879) II. 381 Mr. Pemberton declares a Necessity of adding to the number of the Seaters. Ibid. 10 June II. 389 Mr. Pemberton..would not have me resign my Seaters place now.
2. As second element, designating a vehicle or article of furniture having a specified seating capacity, as two- (three-, etc.) seater.
1906Daily Chron. 15 Nov. 3/6 Two-cylinder, two-seater car. 1916H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks Pl. xvi, The familiar biplanes with 80 h.p. Gnomes, and 5-seater with 100 h.p. Anzani. 1923Galsworthy Captures 217 Hubert Marsland..had occasion to stay the progress of his two-seater about ten miles from London for a minor repair. 1941J. D. Carr Case of Constant Suicides iii. 44 A..five-seater car was drawn up before the tourist-office. 1966‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive xx. 184 It was a massive black Lincoln sedan; a seven-seater executive-style transport. 1978R. V. Jones Most Secret War iv. 39 It seemed that, if we developed the detector to the operational stage, it would have to be mounted in single seater fighters.
▪ II. seater
var. saeter, setter. |