chair seater

noun

Someone whose job it is to make seats for chairs.

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Meanings

nounchair seater (plural chair seaters)

plural chair seaters · alternative chair-seater · alternative chairseater

  1. historicalSomeone whose job it is to make seats for chairs.

    Among the women, five were employed as 'chair seaters', although for them lacemaking was the prime occupation.

    1976, Pamela Horn, Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN, page 107

Origin

From chair seat + -er.

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APA

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MLA

“chair seater.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chair%20seater. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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