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bathchair

bathchair is the alternative form of Bath chair.

Meaning of Bath chair

Noun

Bath chair (plural Bath chairs)

  1. (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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Forms of bathchair

pluralbathchairs

Questions about bathchair

What is bathchair the alternative form of?
Bathchair is the alternative form of Bath chair.

Words near bathchair in the dictionary

  1. Bathampton
  2. bathbomb
  3. bathbombs
  4. bathbrush
  5. bathbrushes
  6. bathchair
  7. bathchairs
  8. bathcube
  9. bathcubes
  10. bathe
  11. batheable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bathchair (page history and authors); Bath chair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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