seat

seat is a Noun

Definition:

[1] The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.

[2] The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation. Where thou dwellest, even where Satan`s seat is. Rev. ii. 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.

[3] That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.

[4] A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.

[5] Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.

[6] A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. Seat worm (Zoöl.), the pinworm.