death chair
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of death chair
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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It is a melodrama involving a man accused of murder, snatched from the death chair, shielding another, a faithful girl� and all that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accordingly, after a dramatic pause, to give stress to her next statement, she continued: 260 “There isn’t a death chair in the whole world can kill a cobbler.”
From Rose O'Paradise by White, Grace Miller
Except in the case of infants or very small children the dead are not buried immediately, but are put into a death chair around which funeral rites are held.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by Moss, C. R.
Even when the health authorities force immediate burial on account of danger from infectious diseases, the siling continues just the same with a dummy corpse in the death chair.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by Moss, C. R.
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