high seat

noun

A seat that it situated above others, as on a raised platform, to be used by dignitaries, royalty, etc.

Meanings

nounhigh seat (plural high seats)

plural high seats

  1. A seat that it situated above others, as on a raised platform, to be used by dignitaries, royalty, etc.
  2. hobbiesA raised hide from which game is shot at.
  3. An external seat on or near the roof of a carriage or coach.

    [T]he young man helped the young lady, half-swooning, inside, and Egbert, Murial Jane and Silvander Dan climbed on to the boot which was a handsome high-seat at the back.

    1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 23
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