bench

A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.

They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.

Scarborough station's famous 139-metre-long bench, believed to be the longest in the world, has been restored in a £14,500 project.

The seat where the judges sit in court.

They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.

The seat where the judges sit in court.

She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.

A seat where people sit together in an official capacity.

the government front bench

On the opposition benches at Holyrood, Scottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby favours a more formal approach of involving passenger and worker representatives in the management of ScotRail.

A seat where people sit together in an official capacity.

the bench of bishops

the civic bench

To remove a player from play.

They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.

OK, you are out! You’re benched!

To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.

To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.

To furnish with benches.

'Twas benched with turf.

stately theatres benched crescent-wise

To place on a bench or seat of honour.

whom I […] have benched and reared to worship

To lift by bench pressing

I heard he can bench 150 pounds.

1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, "Powersource: Ties that bind", Ironman 47 (6): 21. For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.