hassock
- n thick cushion used as a seat
- n a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church)
- Soon afterward an uncle noticed that as Margie sat on a hassock she looked crooked, and her right shoulder blade protruded.
- Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy.
- The Dallas store has already stocked up with a $350 rhinoceros-shaped leather hassock, $300 pipes made from bruyre roots and $40,000 elephant guns inlaid with gold and platinum.