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Langsadil(l, -saidill, -seddill, n.¹ Also: lange-, (lan-), and -sadyll, -ddell, -ddill, -dle; -saidile, -dell, -dle; -sedile, -dell, -dle; and Lang-sadyr. [North. ME. langsedil (1352–3), -sedylle. More often written as one word. Cf. also Lang-sald and Lang-sattill.] A long wooden bench having a back and commonly also arms or sides, normally with a locker or chest beneath the hinged seat; a ‘settle’.Common (with lang-sattil, -sald etc.) in the 16th and the 17th c.One special variety of ‘langsaddle’ was that which could be converted into a bed (also Langsadill-bed), another could serve as a folding table, and others were combined with a cupboard or press.(a) 1454 Old Dundee I. 558.
A lang saddill standand at the altar end 1489–90 Prot. Bk. J. Young 75.
[A] langsadill [L. sedile] 1509–10 Edinb. Hammermen 68.
To Patrik Carwour for ane langsadill xlvij s. 1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) 109.
For ane pair of wyndo bandis to ane langsadill 1540 Acta Conc. MS. XIII. 119.
The paraling of ane hall with boncure, cusschingis, lang sadill [etc.] 1547 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) Walbane v. Douglas.
Ane veschell almery and ane sitting langsadill c 1560 in Lynd. (S.T.S.) IV. 276.
Ane chyre, ane lang furme, … ane cop almery, ane lansadill, ane bed of carvit werk 1562 Edinb. B. Deeds 62 b.
Ane sait langsadill, ane bed lang sadill 1570 St. A. Kirk S. 336.
He … lay doun besyde hir in ane langsadil 1572 Edinb. Test. II. 255 b.
Ane litill firin lang sadill price viij s. 1572 Prot. Bk. J. Robeson 166.
[She] hes … gevin … to [her] ane rownall ane langsadill and ane mekle schyre to be ane begynnyng to hir hous 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 334.
Ane lang sadill & tua foirsates of langsadillis estimat to iiij li. 1615 Ib. XLIX. 14.
Ane falding doune langsadill with ane almerie abone the samyn 1622 Wedderb. Compt. Bk. 185.
The aikin lang sadill of the pres 1703 Foulis Acc. Bk. 323.
2 snecks for a lang-sadle(b) 1581–2 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 29.
Ane pres with ane lang saidill thairin, and the foirface to be of estland buird 1583 Elgin Rec. I. 172.
Ane standen bed, ane feddir bed, ane langsaidill, ane pair of blankettis 1609 Mining Rec. 143.
Debursit for four standing beddis … set vp at the mynis … and ane langsaidile set vp in George Bruces chalmer 1627 Edinb. Test. LIV. 55.
Ane foir face of ane lang saidell(c) 1499 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 26.
Twa met burdis, ij kists, a lang sedile, thre ruche beddis 1517 Caldwell P. I. 56.
Twa lang sedles 1621 Edinb. Test. LI. 98 b.
Ane lang sedell pryce x lib. 1636 Thanes of Cawdor 281.
Within the littil turnep … ane old bed with ane langeseddill 1646 Edinb. Test. LXII. 255 b.
Ane langsedle estimat to iiij lib.

b. Attrib. with end, form, kist, seit and in Langsadil(l-bed. 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 175.
Ane langsadyll seyt of aik 1521 Stirling B. Rec. I. .
Scho ressavit ane pair of blak clokis … and laid tham in apon Roben Tenentis langsadill end within his hous 15.. Aberd. B. Rec. (Jam.).
Ane langsadill form of fyr worcht iiij s. c 1564 Glasgow Test. II. 22.
Ane langseddill kist without bandi sor lok xl s.