[f. BENCH sb. + -LET.] A little bench, a stool.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., X. XXI. vii. Three little benchlets or stools … stood before him.

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1884.  A. A. Putnam, Ten Years Police Judge, xvi. 164–5. The petit judge might sit on his benchlet.

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