What is a "settle" in Wuthering Heights?

Dictionary seems to have a number of different meanings for this and I'm not sure which it is. For example of Heathcliff - "He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart to himself, as he expected."

Or speaking or Catherine - "She jumped up in a fine fright, flung Hareton onto the settle, and ran to seek for her friend herself".