chair seater

English

Alternative forms

• chair-seater, chairseater

Etymology

From chair seat +‎ -er.

Noun

chair seater (plural chair seaters)

1. (historical) Someone whose job it is to make seats for chairs.
   • 1976, Pamela Horn, Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN, page 107:

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

See also

• chair matter

 

References

• “chair seater, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.