Definition of "mead-bench" []

• The seat or bench at a Germanic feast (noun)

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• "Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls."
• "Wonder it was the wine-hall firm in the strain of their struggle stood, to earth the fair house fell not; too fast it was within and without by its iron bands craftily clamped; though there crashed from sill many a mead-bench — men have told me — gay with gold, where the grim foes wrestled."
• "A sword to the boat-guard Beowulf gave, mounted with gold; on the mead-bench since he was better esteemed, that blade possessing, heirloom old. —"