north. dial. Forms: 4 langsedil, 5 -sedylle, -cetel, longsetylle, 6 langsaddil, -saild, -settell, 7 long settle, (9 dial. lang-, long-saddle), 8–9 lang-settle. [f. lang LONG a. + SETTLE sb.] A long bench or ‘settle,’ usually with arms and a high back.

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1352–3.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 208. 1 langsedil.

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c. 1425.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 657/9. Hoc sedile, langsedylle.

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14[?].  Nom., ibid. 723/37. Hoc sedile, a longsetylle.

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1571.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 366. A langsettell, a round dyssenge table.

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1622.  N. Riding Rec., IV. 156. Conveyance of a cottage house and heirloomes (one long settle onelie excepted).

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1790.  Grose, Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Lang-settle, a bench like a settee. North.

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1841.  C. Anderson, Anc. Models, 128. What is called vulgarly the long saddle in an ale-house.

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1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Lang settle, a long seat or form with a back-rail and arms; in some cases, however, the back, &c., is an entire boarded surface.

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  b.  attrib., as langsettle-bed, -end, form.

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1566.  Inv. R. Wardr. (1815), 173. Item, ane langsaddil-bed.

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15[?].  Aberd. Reg., XVI. (Jam.). Ane langsaild bed. Ibid., XVII. (ibid.). Ane langsadill form of fyr worcht iiij sh.

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1785.  Hutton, Bran New Wark, 137 (E. D. S.). Bibles and testaments were formerly seen on the sconce or lang-settle end.

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