OE Fortunes of Men 78 Sum sceal on heape hæleþum cweman, blissian æt beore bencsittendum.

OE Beowulf (2008) 1161 Gamen eft astah, beorhtode bencsweg; byrelas sealdon win of wunderfatum.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Benchclothe, or carpet cloth.

1683 W. Houschone Scotl. pulling down Gates of Rome 15 All our works shall be thrown over the bench-bar of Heaven.

1699 P. A. Motteux Island Princess Prol. sig. A4 Gentlemen mind!..Kept-Toppers, Tame Cullies, Bench-Hoppers, Sowre Grumblers, High-Fliers, Wench-Bumblers, Pit-Plyers, Give Ear, ev'ry Man! Be still, if you can!

1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 33 My poor bench-tied countrymen.

1850 J. Smith Rep. Sanit. Condition Hull 17 Forming bench-beds for the vessels.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 49/2 A park bench-boarder stands a pretty slim show in court proceedings.

1987 R. Mistry Tales from Firozsha Baag 209 Tucked away in one corner was a large bench-swing, hanging still.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Jan. c29/5 Promenading or bench-sitting women whose finery denotes different levels of expense and fashion-forwardness.

1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court sig. A3^v English Bishops haue for Religion done that, which neuer any Clerolaicall Consistorien, or Bench-Presbyterian,..durst, hath, or can performe.

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse ii. 13 Thou..sitt'st Bench-mute with thy decayed braines.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. x. 74 As if he made a Session or Bench-businesse thereof.

1845 County Herald 8 Nov. 5/2 Defendant was remanded till next Bench-day.

1932 B. P. Pal Memories Life & Times i. 3 The Subordinate Judge liked his bench-clerk very much.

1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 76 Cells below magistrates' courts were little different from those at police stations. They provided as standard a bench-bed, usually without a mattress, and rarely a toilet of any kind.

2010 H.-E. Sung in G. R. Newman Crime & Punishment around World II. 155/2 Whereas a jury's verdict is final, a bench verdict can be appealed.

1938 Galveston (Texas) Tribune 14 Dec. 21/2 Cavaretta..alternated between bench-riding and the outfield last season.

1962 ‘A. Bannon’ Beebo Brinker (2001) 191 And Leo, with bench-coaching from Beebo, had wheedled a radiant performance out of his wife.

2013 FourFourTwo Jan. 104/1 The summer departures of Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart have helped Bale complete his transformation from bench-dwelling misfit to undisputed star man in little over two years.

1549 J. Bale in J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. F1 These chymney prechers, and benche bablers.

1939 V. Fisher Children of God v. 41 His appalling blunder in giving the manuscript to a bench-babbler like Martin Harris left him for weeks without certainty of purpose.

1587 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1995) (modernized text) X. 251 Benchboards and painted cloths, a falling table, and a trammel.

1630 Inventory of C. Crouch in Bedfordshire Notes & Queries (1893) 3 276 One table with a frame one bench board.

1833 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 102 These latter..would fain reduce the law to an ignoble craft, or those who dispense it to mere tradesmen. Seated on their bench-board, they would allow them to dispose of suits.

1914 Times Engin. Suppl. 4 Mar. 49/2 All the operations are directed from a control gallery..containing the generator benchboard.

1963 Behaviour 20 118 One grappling pair [of cicadas] fell in the small space between two bench boards.

1991 Electric Light & Power (Nexis) May 40 LEDs..directly replace incandescent indicator lamps used in control panels and benchboards in generation, transmission and distribution facilities.

2008 Converting Mag. (Nexis) 1 Sept. 72 Get rid of knobs on the benchboard and replace them with transparent and calibrated math in the computer.

1894 Upland (Indiana) Monitor 2 Aug. 2/2 The kiln hands state they did not return under the new bench boss, and negotiations are off for the present.

1909 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 10 Dec. 14/2 The rival skippers were McGraw and Mack. Both were bench bosses.

1942 East Liverpool (Ohio) Rev. 18 Aug. 3/2 There shall be a working bench boss at the bench on all three tunnel kilnplacing crews.

1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 2/1 (heading) Top coach should not be first year bench boss.

2017 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 26 Jan. d6 As the Moncton bench boss and director of hockey operations, Flynn made deals to upgrade his personnel.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic i. viii. 229 Pins running through the bench-leg and bench-cheek respectively.

1917 B. E. Jones Compl. Woodworker ii. 45 A hole should next be cut in the bench cheek, to correspond with that in the block.

1857 N.Y. Herald 1 Mar. 2/5 Improved carpenters bench clamp.

1922 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 96/2 Small work on radio apparatus and electrical instruments often can readily be handled in a bench clamp.

1958 Pop. Mech. Dec. 203/1 Combination hand vise and bench vise is so designed that it can be detached from bench clamp and used as a hand vise.

2012 J. Whitman Woodworker's Studio Handbk. vii. 125/1 The bench clamp is also used to secure wood when chopping dovetails.

1949 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 22 Aug. 13/4 Umpire Dolton gave the bench-clearing order.

1953 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Dec. 27/3 A last-minute shambles of penalties and bench-clearing by the referee following a mass outbreak on the ice.

1976 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 24 Jan. 6/3 Probably the biggest problem facing the sport is violence. Common occurrences used to include stick-swinging fights and bench-clearing brawls.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 49/3 Bench-clearing—in any sport whether the players leave a baseball dugout or the bench in any other sport—has no place in any game.

1998 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Electronic ed.) 6 June The bench-clearing brawls were an embarrassment for major-league baseball.

1998 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. d1 A game spiced by two players getting hit by pitches and one of those typical milling-around, no-fighting bench-clearings.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Oct. c21/1 The bench-clearing incident in Game 3 on Saturday.

1905 Leader-Dispatch (Piqua, Ohio) 20 June Hughes acted as bench coach for the team yesterday afternoon.

1945 N.Y. Times 30 Sept. 2 s/3 The Steelers rumbled into the last quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles. The fiery Blood could withstand the sedentary life of a bench coach no longer.

1993 W. Kinsella Dixon Cornbelt League & Other Baseball Stories (1994) 32 In the fifth inning, even though his starter is in no trouble, Murtagh looks around to make certain his pitching coach or bench coach aren't watching.

2003 Washington Post 4 Dec. (Home ed.) d2/5 Francona..served as the Oakland Athletics bench coach last season.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 541 Coal, called Bench-Coal.

1769 Universal Mag. 44 66 (table) Bench-coal, or Bank-coal.

1869 J. T. Hodge in J. Macfarlane Coal-regions Amer. (1873) xi. 246 The roof-coal is not the only part left unworked at many of the mines. Throughout the whole coal-field the lowest two or three feet of the bed contain one or two seams of slate, commonly two, each half and inch or so thick, and about a foot apart... In the destructive rivalry that has existed in the different companies, many have allowed this ‘bench-coal’ to remain unworked, and have been willing to pick out the choicest middle part only.

1951 Canad. Mining & Metall. Bull. 44 334/2 The high sulphur and ash percentages are predominantly found in the roof- and bench-coal, wheras the middle portion of the seam shows average figures.

1998 D. McC. Bridge et al. Geol. Country around Coventry & Nuneaton vii. 62/2 The Bench Coal usually occurs in two leaves, separated by 0.4 to 1.9 m of grey mudstone.

1860 Ann. Rep. State Prison Commissioner Wisconsin 36/3 in Public Docs. State of Wisconsin (1860) Inventory of Tools in Carpenter's shop... 2 Iron bench-dogs.

1887 Forest & Stream 23 Sept. 170/2 Here again we must decide, are they to be sporting or bench dogs, for do not our judges give the first places to those dogs—other points being equal—which have the longest and most abundant feathering?

1922 A. F. Hochwalt Bird Dogs ii. 23 In the Graphic kennels he became the successful sire of bench dogs.

1988 Tool World 41/1 These traditional bench dogs are used in conjunction with an end vice to hold work securely.

2010 Woodcarving Jan.—Feb. 19/3 The simplest option for regularly shaped panels is to grip them in the jaws of a Workmate, or between a tail vice and bench dogs.

2013 C. Zuchora-Walske Setters 13 Field dogs are usually smaller and leaner than bench dogs.

1844 Manch. Guardian 23 Mar. 8/2 Vice bench, bench drill and brace, files.

1930 Tel.-Herald & Times-Jrnl. (Dubuque, Iowa) 5 June 9/2 A complete wooden model of a bench drill.

2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 60/2 Ancient bench drills like this one from 1880 are scarce, especially if they are still in good usable condition.

1842 Christian Remembrancer Mar. 382/1 The great abundance of carved wood-work, such as benches and bench-ends, of endless variety.

1898 A. Jessopp in 19th Cent. Jan. 56 We get a payment entered for the carving of the bench-ends in a little church, 500 years ago.

1960 Times 12 Aug. 12/7 This church..is full of interest, with exceptionally attractive poppyhead benchends.

2011 Church Times 11 Mar. 27/2 Here are some of the country's finest 15th-century carved bench ends.

2001 S. Bitker Orig. San Francisco Giants 36/1 The day was highlighted by a benches-clearing brawl in the opener.

2014 P. Gutierrez 100 Things Raiders Fans should know & Do xviii. 56 A benches-clearing brawl precipitated when Ben Davidson speared Len Dawson in the back.

1885 Internat. Inventions Exhib. (London) : Official Catal. 124 Used dry, as bench grinders, they replace to a great extent the file.

1925 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Fall–Winter 1027/2 Standard grade bench grinder..with tight and loose pulleys..for polishing and grinding.

2015 G. Wright Fund. Medium-Heavy Duty Diesel Engines iii. 55/1 While it is not possible to eliminate the hazards of using the bench grinder, by putting specific measures in place, the risk of those hazards can be reduced.

1815 Standing Orders Commissariat Waggon Train 20/2 2 Bench Hammers (hand-led).

1898 Hub Aug. 341/1 Break it down hard on the folded edge, using a bench hammer with a large face.

2010 K. McKinnon Sculptural Metal Clay Jewelry 43/2 Use a hammer that you don't mind marring.., not your bench hammer.

1851 Builder 7 June 369/1 (advt.) Also, two or three good Bench Hands: likewise a good Plasterer, accustomed to modelling.

1949 Econ. Hist. Rev. New Ser. 2 139 A 32-year-old Bilston toolmaker..became bench-hand in an engineering shop.

1993 N.Y. Times 5 Sept. iii. 4/3 As a bench hand, Mr. Vick sits at a small counter removing burrs from machine-cut engine parts and subassemblies.

1865 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 25 Feb. 1/3 4 excellent work benches..furnishing ironmongery, bench holdfast and dogs.

1957 Manch. Guardian 13 Apr. 4/7 Remember to put an occasional spot of oil..on your clamps, bench-holdfast, and other metal accessories.

2001 S. Moss et al. Bird Boxes & Feeders (2003) 57/1 Use the bench holdfast to secure the difficult-to-hold shapes.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 106^v Suche a sheepe y^t durst not shewe his face emong menne, but was more like to crepe in to a benche hole, then to dooe any manly acte. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.]

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions 19 Whiche dreamed not their knowledge in the benchehole at home.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. viii. 6 Wee'l beat 'em into Bench-holes . View more context for this quotation

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 231 The stoutest Atheist turnes pale, and is ready to creep into a bench-hole.

1619 Payment Sept. in S. M. Kingsbury Recs. Virginia Company (1933) III. 181 A spokeshave and .2. bench hookes.

1677 Inventory 21 June in W. M. Sargent York (Maine) Deeds (1889) V. i. f. 4 A small sale bench Hooke & fiue playne Irons.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 236 The bench-hook is to keep the wood steady.

1877 Sci. Amer. 17 Mar. 165/1 The bench hook is a piece of wood sawn to the shape shown in Fig. 159, and is used as a butt; for timber, in cross-cutting work, should not be sawn directly on the bench.

1911 L. Rouillion Econ. Man. Training (ed. 2) 89 Each bench to be fitted with two iron bench hooks.

1986 F. Underwood & G. Warr in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) ii. v. 193 The most used piece of workshop equipment is a sawing board, also known as a bench hook.

1884 Canad. Patent Office Rec. Oct. 456/2 The fixed or bench jaw..having a cylindrically-formed body or base.

1907 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 2 July 90/2 A bench jaw integrally formed with one of said arms.

2001 A. Guidice Seven Essent. Woodworking iv. 62/1 The cleats rest on the upper part of Scandinavian-type bench jaws.

1925 Frederick (Maryland) Post 21 Dec. 3/2 The veteran players in the American League were pestered last season by the oral bombs of a bench jockey who couldn't be stopped even by a smack or two on the mouth.

1939 G. S. Cochrane Baseball vii. 125 All the bench jockeys on the circuit were quickly counting ten on every pitch Lefty made.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Aug. c17/4 Those Dodgers had a reputation for being the rowdiest bench jockeys.

1936 San Antonio (Texas) Express 12 Apr. a8/3 The total of over 15 [players] won't mean much, except as company and for bench jockeying, neither of which the stars on the Cubs need.

1936 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. 23 July 10/3 Constant bench jockeying mixed with a little umpire baiting.

1987 S. Fiffer How to watch Baseball vii. 143 Despite Tanana's experience, bench jockeying..is in danger of becoming a lost art.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 30 May iv. 8/2 Meyer..was known as much for his bench-jockeying and temper tantrums as he was for his pitching exploits.

1868 J. P. Stelle Amer. Watchmaker & Jeweler ii. 16 Let down the main-spring by placing your bench key upon the arbor, or ‘winding post,’ and turning.

1919 Jewelers' Circular 2 July 131/3 Insert a bench key in the pinion and see if it turns freely.

1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xii. 89 There were also screw plates, hacksaws, pin tongs, calipers, bench keys.

1845 Indiana State Jrnl. (Indianapolis) 21 May The bottom lands, such as were not drowned out, and bench lands, and sandy uplands brought crops, but low grounds and clays had either no corn or but poor crops.

1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake ii. x. 326 Bench-land fifty or hundred feet above the water-level.

1868 W. E. Waters Life among Mormons x. 71 The entire valley, with all the bench-lands and the mountains surrounding these.

1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake vii. 409 It was clear..that in times past this mighty river had been ten or fifteen times as wide as it now was; proof existed in the flat, smooth benchlands stretching..from its banks.

2000 Native Peoples: Arts & Lifeways No. 5. 66/2 Once the steps provided Chacoans with access from the valley floor to the benchland overhead.

2006 G. Mortenson & D. O. Relin Three Cups of Tea (2007) xxiii. 327 Twenty minutes before Baharak, the river gorge opened into lush benchland between rolling hills.

1848 Message from President U.S. to Congr. 360 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 1) I A planing machine, and other tools have been purchased, and a bench lathe constructed and added to the stock in the finishing shop.

1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 100/1 The new..South Bend Tool Room Bench Lathe is a highly efficient tool.

2012 Computers & Electronics in Agric. 80 51/1 All mechanical parts were designed in AutoCAD 2008..and precision cuts and shapes were made with a bench lathe.

1833 Globe 6 Apr. 6/1 So long as the..system of common, statute and bench-made law..shall find favor in our land, lawyers will be the oracles of truth, wisdom, and justice.

1882 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 27 Sept. 12/4 (advt.) Fine, hand-sewed..regular bench-made goods.

1969 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 9 Feb. a7/5 The Brown ruling was bench-made law.

1975 Countryman Autumn 19 (advt.) Tricker's Bench Made waterproof and Country Shoes are prized by people who appreciate traditional craftsmanship in natural materials.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 June d2/3 Mr. Godley's uniform consists of bench-made English shoes, a spread-collar shirt under a sport coat and, of course, a tie.

1658 Narr. Sufferings Fift Monarchy Men 14 The Bench..were much dissatisfied, and a great stir there was, but the Jury stood to it..& so broke up: the Bench-men and the Jury seeming very much displeased each with other.

1769 Dialogue between Sir George Cornwell & Mr Flint 6 He is at present only a brevet county bench man.

1819 Liverpool Mercury 8 Jan. 1/4 A Number of journeymen chair makers, good Benchmen.

1850 Morning Chron. 22 July 5/4 The ‘benchman’, or man who works in the shop, has always his chest of tools ready by his side.

1901 Daily Chron. 7 May 10/6 Boot trade.—Good benchman wanted for repairs.

1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land xvii. 398 If I go to court and the bench man throws a dime on me, I'll walk with that too, Sonny.

1993 Woodworker June 82/2 The benchman..worked at a bench shaping and ‘cleaning up’ chair parts.

1747 B. Langley (title) The builder's bench-mate.

1882 Mech. Engineer 9 Dec. 141/2 Sociable as they are, especially when your bench-mate is a lively young fellow,..I prefer a bench to myself.

1913 Masses May 8/2 It made Chucky straighten up slowly, and look stealthily at his bench-mate.

1991 Sports Illustr. 9 Dec. 52/3 This year's Pistons would be different without..beloved bombardier Vinnie Johnson and broad-shouldered benchmates Tree Rollins and Scott Hastings.

2012 O. Burkeman Antidote ii. 46 He ended up sharing benches, and attempting conversation, with a hundred and thirty women... Only in one case did the conversation progress far enough for Ellis and his benchmate to make a plan to meet again.

1957 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 24 Oct. 7/5 A bench minor should be imposed against the offending team if anything is thrown on the ice during stoppage of play.

1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 May e1 Cherry leaped on the Boston bench, screaming and earning a bench minor penalty.

1990 R. Olver Making Champions i. vii. 61 There is even a bench minor as Kings' coach Doug Sauter waves a fist at the referee.

2017 Daily Gleaner (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 16 Jan. d1 The Panthers were assessed a bench minor at the end of the second period for leaving the bench early.

1915 Factory Oct. 291/2 To act as safeguards, inverted boxes are placed over each bench-mounted motor.

1983 Buck & Hickman Catal. 1983–5 916 The G2M bench mounted wet sandstone grinder has a 12in diameter.

2009 J. Zurschmeide Automotive Welding ii. 23/1 For thicker sheetmetals, you may need a bench-mounted shear.

1922 Boston Post 13 Mar. 13/3 The Boston team was highly complimented..for their exceptional clean playing. They did not have a bench penalty in the two games.

1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 Oct. If two players begin fighting, the referee will order the rest of the players near the altercation to move to two separate areas. If they don't, one team or both can be given a two-minute bench penalty.

2017 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 1 Jan. 10 c The contest was interrupted by a couple of incidents of pushing and shoving after plays, one of which earned Tech a bench penalty.

1758 Public Advertiser 16 Nov. Lost last Night,..a Parcel of Carpenters Tools,..three Hand Saws,..two Pannel Saws,..six Sets of Bench Planes.

1819 P. Nicholson Archit. Dict. II. 150/2 The first tools used by joiners are bench planes, which generally consist of a jack plane,..the trying plane,..the long plane, and the smoothing plane.

1927 Boys' Life Dec. 59/1 The block plane is especially for cutting across the grain. The blade is set at a lower angle than in the bench plane.

1990 Pract. Woodworking Mar. 32/2 Their Patent Adjustment..was commonplace on the firm's bench planes by 1930.

1888 Boston Daily Globe 2 July 8/3 He says he will not be a bench player under any circumstances.

1982 Washington Post 20 Mar. d1 He now considers Lucas a ‘bench player’ and will not depend on him as he has in the past.

2015 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Sept. (Sport section) 40 The problem for the Broncos is the Roosters pack is so strong, their bench players are as good as their starters.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 88 A Bench-Reel is similar to a spinning-wheel, and is used to expedite winding the twine.

?1797 J. H. Röding Anhang zum englischen Index 27 in Allgemeines Wörterbuch der Marine (1793–8) III Garnwinde,..Bench-reel.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 358 Sufficient bed and bench-room to rest and repose [Fr. assez..de fueillasses & de Matras].

1867 Daily News 2 July 5/2 The amount of bench-room assigned by the architect to each member is twenty inches.

2006 J. K. Bouknight & J. Loecke Home Organizing Idea Bk. ix. 145/2 A big family requires a lot of bench room when they all pile in after skating or swimming, and a large U-shaped bench is the perfect answer.

1915 Rep. Coll. Agric. Univ. Calif. 1914–15 22 Seeds having had the seed coats removed before planting showed no bench root whatever.

2004 SA Fruit Jrnl Apr. 25/1 The trees conform to the following requirements;..no bench root within 150mm from the collar of the tree.

1853 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 16 211 (table) Bench-saws for cutting blocks of wood.

1925 Pop. Mech. Apr. (Advertising section) 184 Clean-cut bench saw and disk sander.

2006 Good Woodworking June 18/3 One day recently while cutting stock at a 10ʺ angle on my Scheppach benchsaw, for some reason I deemed it unnecessary to use a pushstick.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 60 The Bench-Screw..to Screw Boards in whiles the edges of them are Plaining or Shooting.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 237 The bench-screw is used to fasten boards between the cheeks, in order to plane their edges.

1916 A. N. Hall & D. Perkins Handicraft for Handy Girls i. 17 The best way to bore the hold for the bench-screw is to nail the jaw..to the front of the bench..and then bore straight through it.

1990 Woodworker July 706/1 Sculptural equipment dealers offer two solutions: the ‘carver's chops’ and the bench screw.

1825 R. G. Wallace Forty Years in World II. xi. 168 The..bench seats were filled with the more respectable classes.

1955 Pop. Mech. Nov. 92/1 (advt.) The four-door with two bench seats.

1993 A. Wells Viking Magic i. 16 A wooden bench seat and a scatter of garden chairs suggested that the residents of the surrounding buildings might take their ease there on a summer's night.

2004 D. Klinger Into Kill Zone iii. 74 He threw her into the front seat of his car and jumped in behind the wheel. It was a bench seat.

1837 Atlas (Boston) 3 Nov. 1 pr Bench Shears; 1 very superior Screw Plate.

1911 Burlington Mag. Apr. 42/2 A pair of large bench-shears is set near a cooling-trough.

1969 Pop. Sci. Oct. 210/1 A fellow interested in wrought-iron work should know about bench shears.

2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 239/1 Bench shears are seldom found today.

1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 26 Apr. 8/2 A bench show of dogs will also be held.

1919 Outing Mar. 341/2 (advt.) This..is one of the foremost Beagles of America. He is siring both Bench Show and Field Winning Stock.

1999 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. 7 The Tampa Bay Beagle Club will hold a bench show for all types of the droopy-eared hounds.

1844 W. Dearden Vale of Caldene 168 She, the once dear charmer of his heart,..Now seated knitting on the grey bench-stone Beside the door.

1875 E. A. Davidson Amateur House Carpenter 22 There is the improved bench stone, which..can be placed on the bench.

1948 Pop. Mech. Mag. Aug. 204/3 Hone jointer knives by wrapping bench stone in paper to prevent marking table.

2002 D. Reed Art & Craft Stonework (2003) iii. 71/1 A bench stone should have a fairly even top surface, free of major protrusions that would be uncomfortable to sit on.

2009 R. Hock Perfect Edge iii. 52/1 Bench stones exist to sharpen tool steel only.

1847 Sci. Amer. 8 May (heading) Shepard's bench-stop.

1881 Mechanic §464 An ordinary carpenter's bench..with a bench vice and bench stop.

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) xi. 490/4 Better-quality benches have an end vice, built onto one end of the worktop, for clamping long sections of timber between metal pegs called bench stops.

1914 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 20 Apr. (City ed.) 3/7 One or two injuries might disarrange my entire team. I have not the necessary bench strength to guard against bad luck.

1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) iii. 57 Maybe next year the Great Spirit of Baseball, if left alone, will bring the Braves what they really need, which is some bench strength.

2015 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 13 Aug. c6 He's got bench strength, too, with such heavyweights as Toronto-Centre's whipsmart incumbent Chrystia Freeland, retired Canadian Forces lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie,..and others.

1857 U.S. Patent 17,292 1/1 A new and useful improvement in bench-strips for joiners' work-benches.

1918 Amer. Machinist 49 1002/1 If it were desired to use the clamp at different angles the shank..could be made hexagon, and the holes in the bench strip made to match.

1967 Techn. Man. No. 11-4940-238-15 (U.S. Dept. Army) i. 7/1 Eight bench strip receptacles are mounted on the facing edge of the workbench.

1844 Rep. to Legislature Kentucky 343 (table) 5 Bench Tops, at $1—$5.

1884 Furnit. Gaz. 8 Mar. 204/1 The German cramp will need very little more than bolting to its place at the end of the bench-top.

1927 Sydney Morning Herald 26 Nov. 11/4 In the white bench-tops in the Kitchen..will be found an interesting new material that is wear-proof, stain-proof, germ-proof.

1956 Pop. Mech. Mag. Jan. 233/1 (heading) Removable bench-top turntable aids in model and radio work.

1992 Family Handyman Jan. 61/1 On that little bench-top saw I was going to make kitchen cabinets, bookshelves and a built-in china cupboard.

2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 491 The fridge was new but the benchtops were the same.

1929 J. Landesco in A. V. Lashly & J. H. Wigmore Illinois Crime Surv. iii. xviii. 854 Experienced prostitutes ask for jury trials..and when their cases are called in the Jury Court, waive a jury and take a bench trial.

1970 M. R. Naiman in S. Terkel Hard Times 408 It was my practice in those days..to always demand a jury trial. It was a long process as against bench trials, where you stand up and give your ditty and it's all over in a matter of minutes.

1994 Judicature Mar. 237/1 Existing fees..are trivial, far below the level necessary to cover the full social costs and private benefits of even a bench trial, much less a jury trial.

2013 New Yorker 27 May 39/2 In jury trials, judges avoid signalling their views, so as not to influence the jurors; but in bench trials there's less reason for judges to be reticent.

1914 Iron Age 30 Apr. 1068/1 New Bench Type Disk Grinding Machine.

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 55 (caption) Bench-type illuminated stripping desk.

2013 S. Peace in G. D. Rowles et al. Environmental Gerontology ii. 39 Comment was..made about..the inadequacy of bench-type seating for people needing body support.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vii. 321/2 The Uice, called the Bench Uice, because set up very firm to a Bench that it shake not, but stand upright; this holdeth all sorts of Iron work that requires Fileing.

1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain i. xiii. 137 They have no other word in the Spanish language, for a bickhorn, or a bench vice, than Vigornia.

1881 Mechanic §464 An ordinary carpenter's bench..with a bench vice and bench stop.

1928 Pop. Mech. Mar. 123/1 It is a good plan to have a small bench vise of the demountable kind.

1999 Furnit. & Cabinetmaking July 39/1 Using the bench vice for small pieces.

1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham iv. 69 Lapham arrived..in his four-seated bench-wagon.

1967 Terre Haute (Indiana) Tribune-Star 30 July 42/5 The long, flat wagon..is a ‘bench wagon’ which contains church benches that are carried to different houses for worship each Sunday.

2010 D. B. Kraybill et al. Amish Way v. 62 The bench wagon may also carry boxes of plates, cups, and eating utensils for the noon meal following the service.

1929 Washington Post 17 May 15/7 Shires broke training rules and was benched. Since then he has been bench-warming while John Clancy played first base.

1976 Upper Penins. Catholic (Marquette, Mich.) 13 Feb. 8/2 He benchwarmed during the game.

2008 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 26/1 Much of his career was spent bench-warming.

1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 181 To be a Bench-warmer, viz. a troublesome Reader or Lecturer, that will never find the way out of his Lecture; also a Pot-Companion, that will not budge out of the Tipling-school.

1880 Oxf. (Iowa) Mirror 24 June The ancient bench-warmers who sun themselves in a sort of an uncertain way at the county seat from day to day.

1892 N.Y. Sporting Times 9 Jan. The days for ‘bench warmers’ with salaries are also past.

1913 Collier's 20 Sept. 29/2 The regular guardian of first base—the mighty slugger—was a confirmed bench warmer already.

1950 A. H. Gross tr. I. B. Singer Family Moskat iii. i. 171 He had not given up hope even when Leah had been married off to the widower, that prayerhouse bench-warmer Moshe Gabriel.

1978 Washington Post 31 May b11/3 Rivera..is a barely competent bench warmer. Her technical skills are evident.., but an ascetic stance makes her music..dull.

2008 Independent 7 Jan. (Media section) 3/2 As one of our national side's leading benchwarmers in the 1990s he deserves better.

1888 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Pharos 25 May 3/4 Cleveland is the man Washington wants for third base, and he would like to go there, as he would then escape the disagreeable bench warming.

1913 Washington Post 12 Aug. 6/6 The Yankee pitcher..has won his last two starts. It was not long ago that waivers were asked on him. Then followed a spell of bench warming.

2013 E. E. Charlton-Trujillo Fat Angie xvi. 219 Fat Angie had mastered bench warming as the Mighty Hornets' Nest squad pounded through their first three games.

1680 Last Dying Speeches & Confession Six Prisoners 4 Between three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon, was Elizabeth Cellier brought upon her Trial, being taken up the day before by a Bench-warrant.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxii. 514 Another called for the immediate arrest of Brigham on a bench warrant before he could fly the country.

2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Oct. 36/1 Other minor offenses, like unpaid court fees for a missed court hearing, could also result in a bench warrant for their arrest.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 293 Bench Winder, a key used for winding watches by a watch maker.

1922 National Safety News Sept. 10/1 They range from small bench winders for field coils to huge lathes and boring mills in the machine shops.

1982 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 28 Oct. b3/6 A second charge, alleging theft of a bench winder, band saw, welding equipment and other country property..was dismissed.

1825 Manch. Guardian 2 July Young Men who have had some experience at Clock or Tool Making, or other bench work.

1831 Newcastle Courant 9 July Wanted, a wire-worker, well acquainted with Bench-Work.

1972 Nature 22 Dec. p. viii/1 (advt.) Applicants are sought..who are willing to forsake benchwork for a career in the academic side of publishing.

2005 A. Rae Workshop Idea Bk. v. 154 Benchwork flows more smoothly when hand tools and auxiliary work surfaces are mere steps away.

1824 Morning Chron. 9 Sept. Prisoner is what we call a bench-worker, that is one who makes goods by hand.

1975 Nature 6 Nov. 91/2 Barnes had considerable skill as a laboratory bench worker.

2009 Mod. Jeweler (Nexis) Mar. 64 Quick spot welds save bench workers a lot of fumbling (and cursing).

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1547/1 If there were anie issue or draining of water vnder the wals..they benched it, digging a trench at the foot of that part of the wall, and filling the same with earth.

1968 Arizona Republic (Phoenix) 17 Sept. 30/4 Cole won the 242-pound class, benching 465 pounds, squatting 711 and deadlifting 724.

1981 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 2 July ‘You should be able to bench press your own weight,’ she said. ‘Many people bench more than that.’

1998 Muscle News No. 33. 29/6 I'm in the gym today and there is this monster guy benching. I mean he's working out on the flat bench with 365+ then goes to the incline and works out with 315+.

2012 J. Tomsky Heads in Beds iii. 51 This was a man who hits the gym, grunts and screams as he benches 350, and then leaves more angry than he went in.