Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chair or chair-like structure mounted on wheels; a Bath chair; an invalid's chair.
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Examples
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Hello to a broken health-care, and greetings to a broken wheel-chair.
Sherman Yellen: Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy Sherman Yellen 2010
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Hello to a broken health-care, and greetings to a broken wheel-chair.
Sherman Yellen: Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy Sherman Yellen 2010
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Hello to a broken health-care, and greetings to a broken wheel-chair.
Sherman Yellen: Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy Sherman Yellen 2010
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Hello to a broken health-care, and greetings to a broken wheel-chair.
Sherman Yellen: Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy Sherman Yellen 2010
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Hello to a broken health-care, and greetings to a broken wheel-chair.
Sherman Yellen: Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy Sherman Yellen 2010
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New addition to the downtown cast Kristine Nielsen, as the historian recounting Jackson's reign, gives her standard dithering, hands a-flutter performance, only this time in a wheel-chair.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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Sax Kari emerges as the circuit's wheel-chair historian and ultimate workhorse, with a résumé that includes leading a swing band in the early 1940s and composing the soundtrack for a late '70s blaxploitation film, "Super Soul Brother."
On the Midnight Special Eddie Dean 2011
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Let it be remembered that Democrats ran ads of an animated, wheel-chair bound, granny being pushed down a flight of stairs when the Republicans suggested that the rate of growth in Medicare spending be trimmed, in the mid-90s.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit 2010
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New addition to the downtown cast Kristine Nielsen, as the historian recounting Jackson's reign, gives her standard dithering, hands a-flutter performance, only this time in a wheel-chair.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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But I miss the sock, and all those ounces of determination tip my sense of balance, and I start to topple over, out of the wheel-chair.
Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011
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