king's cushion

English

A sketch of a king's cushion

Noun

king's cushion

1. (UK, dialect, idiomatic) A four-handed seat made by two people crossing their hands and holding their own wrist with one hand, and holdin the wrist of the other person with the other hand
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     in this garb he was now mounted on the hands of two of the rioters, clasped together, so as to form what is called in Scotland, "The King's Cushion ."

References

• “king”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.