Bath chair

American  

Or bath chair

noun

1. a wheeled and hooded chair, used especially by invalids.

2. any wheelchair.

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Bath chair British  

noun

1. a wheelchair for invalids, often with a hood

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Etymology

Origin of Bath chair

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

After about 10 months, he said, the bath chair was approved.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2024

He would not talk of it, was lured to speak of his newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nurse got to her feet very quickly and went to the bath chair.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The aged and disillusioned profess a keen appreciation of the bath chair and the homely spoonful of medicine, and pity a crudity that misses the fine quality of those ripe established things.

From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.

We had secured a victoria which was not much larger than a bath chair, but in a crowd this had its advantage.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.