bath chair meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

bath chair

nounalso spelled Bath chair

Alternative Alternative form of Bath chair.

Watkin attended the opening of Marylebone station in a bath chair, having recently suffered a stroke.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 76:

A chair that can be used in a bath (bathtub), coming in different sizes for babies and adults.

noun

UK /bɑːθ t͡ʃɛə/

Etymology Named from Bath, the home of its inventor, James Heath.

Historical An early form of wheelchair with three wheels, used to transport ladies or invalids, common in Victorian England.

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.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1096:

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