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chairseater

chairseater is the alternative form of chair seater.

Meaning of chair seater

Noun

chair seater (plural chair seaters)

  1. (historical) Someone whose job it is to make seats for chairs.
    • Among the women, five were employed as 'chair seaters', although for them lacemaking was the prime occupation.1976, Pamela Horn, Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN, page 107

Forms of chairseater

pluralchairseaters

Questions about chairseater

What is chairseater the alternative form of?
Chairseater is the alternative form of chair seater.

Words near chairseater in the dictionary

  1. chairpersonships
  2. chairs
  3. chairs of state
  4. chairs up
  5. chairseat
  6. chairseater
  7. chairseaters
  8. chairseats
  9. chairsful
  10. chairship
  11. chairships

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