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Bath chair

(băth, bäth)
n.
A hooded wheelchair used especially for invalids, typically at a spa.
[After Bath.]
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Bath chair

n
(Medicine) a wheelchair for invalids, often with a hood
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Bath′

(or bath′) chair`,


n.
1. a wheeled and hooded chair, used esp. by invalids.
2. any wheelchair.
[1815–25; after Bath, England]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. bath chair - a wheelchair usually pushed by an attendant, as at a spa
wheelchair - a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant
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Translations

Bath chair

n → Kranken- or Rollstuhl m
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And twice a day I should go down in a Bath chair to the Colonnade to drink the waters.
During the best part of it I religiously followed the doctor's mandate and did nothing whatever, except moon about the house and garden and go out for two hours a day in a Bath chair. That did break the monotony to a certain extent.
It was known that she had insisted on sending her own carpenter to look into the possibility of taking down the end panel of the front pew, and to measure the space between the seat and the front; but the result had been discouraging, and for one anxious day her family had watched her dallying with the plan of being wheeled up the nave in her enormous Bath chair and sitting enthroned in it at the foot of the chancel.
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He was an invalid, keeping his bed half the time, and the other half hobbling round the house with a stick or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a Bath chair. He was well liked by the few neighbours who called upon him, and he has the reputation down there of being a very learned man.
Mortimer, the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner--an old Crimean man of excellent character.
He'd quite lost the use of his limbs; but then he'd got a Bath chair, and somebody to draw him; and that's what you won't have, I doubt, Bessy."
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"There are no more bathing machines or bath chairs, Marsden Rock doesn't look like that any more and who even remembers the giant pencils of Eldon Square, once From 45 thought worthy of postcard celebration?" Better remembered as the
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