bath chair

plural bath chairs

1. alternativeAlternative form of Bath chair.

   Watkin attended the opening of Marylebone station in a bath chair, having recently suffered a stroke.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 76

2. A chair that can be used in a bath (bathtub), coming in different sizes for babies and adults.

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1. historicalAn early form of wheelchair with three wheels, used to transport ladies or invalids, common in Victorian England.

   He was an invalid, keeping his bed half the time, and the other half hobbling round the house with a stick or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a Bath chair.

   1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1096