inseatn.
Scottish ? Obsolete.
The general living-room in a farmhouse or cottage in Scotland in the 18th cent.
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1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 114 That part of the building which served the family for lodging, sleeping, cookery, dairy, etc., denominated the in-seat, was about 12 or at most 14 feet square. On larger farms, another of nearly the same dimensions, and which entered through the in-seat, was called the spense.
18.. W. Watson Answ. Unco Bit Want in Poems (1877) 67 (Jam. Supp.) The morn I sall speak to my father, To big us an inset an' spence.
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