† pew-dishn.Obsolete a dish passed or placed among the pews in a church or chapel (in quot. 1654 used depreciatively of the font in a Presbyterian church).Apparently an isolated use.
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pew-dish1654
1654 T. GatakerDisc. Apol. 67 Pleading for the setled and immoveable Font.., which the Presbyterians, he saith, have brought to a moveable and unsettled Pue-dish.