Definition of "garden-seat" [garden-seat]

• A seat or bench in a garden. (noun)
• A name jocosely applied to one of the seats for the accommodation of outside passengers which are arranged in parallel rows across the roof of some British omnibuses, facing in the direction of the journey. See knifeboard, 2, for another arrangement. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She sat on a garden-seat, tired with walking, exhausted with much thinking — with the long thoughts in which a whole lifetime rises up before the mind, and is spread out like a scroll before the eyes of those who feel that Death is near."
• "The physical pain grew worse; by degrees she lost consciousness, and sat like one asleep upon the garden-seat."
• "I found Varia in the garden under the apple-tree on the little garden-seat; she was wearing a dark dress, rather creased; her weary eyes, the dejected droop of her hair, seemed to express genuine suffering."