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Merlin chairs

Merlin chairs is the plural of Merlin chair.

Meaning of Merlin chair

Noun

Merlin chair (plural Merlin chairs)

  1. A type of early wheelchair, which the occupant propels by means of crank-handles in the armrests.
    • She has a gay Turn, but Ill health has long confined her to a Merlin Chair, in wᶜʰ however She travels not incommodiously, and is wheeled about.1797 September 19, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana

Questions about Merlin chairs

What is Merlin chairs the plural of?
Merlin chairs is the plural of Merlin chair.

Words near Merlin chairs in the dictionary

  1. merles
  2. merlette
  3. merlettes
  4. merlin
  5. Merlin chair
  6. Merlin chairs
  7. Merlin's grass
  8. Merlin's grasses
  9. Merlinesque
  10. merling
  11. merlings

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