pew

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pew englannista suomeksi

  1. kirkonpenkki

  1. kirkonpenkki

  2. Substantiivi

  3. Verbi

pew englanniksi

  1. One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.

  2. (ux)

  3. An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.

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  5. Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.

  6. (RQ:Milton Hirelings)

  7. (RQ:Pepys Diary)did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was “The Five Hours’ Adventure:” but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox’s pew with her.

  8. A chair; a seat.

  9. (quote-book) who subscribed to a popular book club and had many long-playing records, who invited people to curry tiffin and said, "Take a pew."

  10. To furnish with pews.

  11. (quote-journal)|passage=building a gallery and altering the pewing in the church at Catherington

  12. (non-gloss definition)

  13. Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun.

  14. (alt form)

  15. cook