ˈinseat Sc. ? Obs.
Also inset.
[f. in adv. + seat n.]
The general living-room in a farmhouse or cottage in Scotland in the 18th c.
| 1811 Aiton View of 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 Poems (1877) 67 (Jam. Supp.) The morn I sall speak to my father, To big us an inset an' spence. |