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Where champions sit, judges rule, and the tired make peace with gravity.
means A long seat for two or more people, or by extension a workspace, a court of judges, or the sidelined players of a team.
from From Old English 'benc,' a long wooden seat, sharing roots with the Germanic family that also gave us 'bank' — both descend from a sense of a raised flat surface or ridge. The money 'bank' and the seating 'bench' are cousins: medieval moneylenders worked from benches (Italian 'banca'), so the place where coins were counted took the name of the seat they sat on. The judicial 'bench' comes from the literal seat where judges sat, and 'benching' a player simply sends them back to that long seat on the sidelines.
- sports
- Whole careers spent inches from the game
- justice
- Judges are literally called the bench
- workshop
- The flat plane every craft is born on
- parks
- Public furniture funding tiny urban naps worldwide
- etymology
- Same root as bank, both flat seats for money
wimbledon players bench — where tennis players sit during changeovers at the all england club
nba bench — players like tyler herro averaging 20+ ppg while coming off the bench
supreme court bench — the 9 justices who sit at the bench in washington dc