langsettle north. dial.
(ˈlæŋsɛt(ə)l)
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 n.]
A long bench or ‘settle’, usually with arms and a high back.
| 1352–3 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 208, 1 langsedil. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 657/9 Hoc sedile, langsedylle. 14.. Nom. ibid. 723/37 Hoc sedile, a longsetylle. 1571 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 366 A langsettell, a round dyssenge table. 1622 N. Riding Rec. IV. 156 Conveyance of a cottage house and heirloomes (one long settle onelie excepted). 1790 Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Lang⁓settle, a bench like a settee. North. 1841 C. Anderson Anc. Models 128 What is vulgarly called the long saddle in an ale-house. 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. |
b. attrib., as langsettle-bed, langsettle-end, langsettle-form.
| 1566 Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 173 Item, ane langsaddil-bed. 15.. Aberd. Reg. XVI. (Jam.), Ane langsaild bed. Ibid., XVII. (ibid.), Ane langsadill form of fyr worcht iiij sh. 1785 Hutton Bran New Wark 137 (E.D.S.) Bibles and testaments were formerly seen on the sconce or lang-settle end. |