captain's chair

American  

noun

1. a chair having a rounded back formed by a heavy rail resting upon vertical spindles and coming forward to form the arms.

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Etymology

Origin of captain's chair

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Hunter is a new flavor of “Star Trek” skipper; casual and compact, she curls up in her captain’s chair, stretches out wherever convenient and goes about barefoot.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s certainly a good-natured show, made so chiefly by Ms. Hunter, who is positively perky and notably lithe—one of the more charming gestures in the series is her curling up like a cat in the same sort of captain’s chair where Kirk, Picard, Janeway, Sisko, Archer, Pike and Burnham planted their intergalactic bottoms.

From The Wall Street Journal

The moment prime ministers take their seat in the captain’s chair, time is running out.

From BBC

We hear about who served under whom, granting legitimacy to the likes of, say, Christopher Pike to claim the captain's chair long before Anson Mount made us ecstatic to see that happen.

From Salon

From the captain’s chair, Axelsson can see more than a dozen computer screens, about half of which help the crew find and catch fish.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• recliner