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cricket chair

cricket chair noun: a small wooden rocking chair or armchair with turned legs and posts, having a padded seat, back cushion, and usually a cloth skirt.

Noun

cricket chair (plural cricket chairs)

  1. A small wooden rocking chair or armchair with turned legs and posts, having a padded seat, back cushion, and usually a cloth skirt.
    • One of these rooms—the "parlour," as Susie called it—had a wide, low embrasure at one end, and you mounted a couple of shallow steps to reach it; indeed, it made quite a little fairy bower, for one side was all casement, through which the roses and the wine-coloured nasturtiums thrust their faces...1892, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, page 52
    • The rockers of her cricket chair snapped rapidly against the floor boards.1954, May Dikeman Hoss, The Pike, page 195
  2. The chairperson of a cricket team.
    • Adrian Cole, cricket chair for U.S. Sports in Israel, was picked to lead the second U.S. cricket team, but the group disbanded after the sudden death of John Martyr, the team's heart and soul, according to 1973 team member Joe Siegman.2015, Ron Kaplan, The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
    • The summer also represented a baptism of fire for former captain Stephen Peters, who had replaced the long-serving Nigel Felton as cricket chair.2024, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2024

Examples of cricket chair in a sentence

  • Steve tipped the cricket chair forward, slid everything to the floor, and moved the chair to another place on the rug.1956, Irving Shulman, Children of the Dark, page 81:
  • I sank down into the small cricket chair beside the fire and gestured to a larger chair on the other side of the fireplace.1991, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Rachel C. Payes, The Dark Towers of Trelochen, page 319:

Forms of cricket chair

pluralcricket chairs

Questions about cricket chair

What does cricket chair mean?
Cricket chair means a small wooden rocking chair or armchair with turned legs and posts, having a padded seat, back cushion, and usually a cloth skirt.
How do you use cricket chair in a sentence?
Steve tipped the cricket chair forward, slid everything to the floor, and moved the chair to another place on the rug.
What part of speech is cricket chair?
Cricket chair is a noun.
What is the plural of cricket chair?
The plural of cricket chair is cricket chairs.

Words near cricket chair in the dictionary

  1. cricket
  2. cricket ball
  3. cricket balls
  4. cricket bat
  5. cricket bats
  6. cricket chair
  7. cricket chairs
  8. cricket circle
  9. cricket field
  10. cricket fields
  11. cricket flour

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