Bath chair
See also: bathchair
English
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editNamed from Bath, the home of its inventor, James Heath.
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editBath chair (plural Bath chairs)
- (historical) An early form of wheelchair with three wheels, used to transport ladies or invalids, common in Victorian England.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Norton, published 2005, page 1096:
- 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.