bench

→ Hindi: बेंच (beñc)

→ Japanese: ベンチ (benchi)

→ Korean: 벤치 (benchi)

→ Swahili: benchi

→ Urdu: بِنْچ (binc)

From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.
Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.

эскәмйә

sports: where players sit when not playing

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.

A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.

بِنْش

weightlifting: horizontal padded surface with a weight rack


throne

From Middle English trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair, throne”). Superseded earlier seld (“seat, throne”).

der

He approached the throne reverently.

9 After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could nūber, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, & tongues, stood before the throne, & before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands:
10 And cryed with a loude voice, saying, Saluation to our God, which sitteth vpon the Throne, and vnto the Lambe.
11 And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glorie, and wisedome, and thankesgiuing, and honour, & power, and might be vnto our God for euer & euer, Amen.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 7:9–12:

An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.

Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 105:

The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.

(music) A kind of stool used by drummers.


throne

en-verb

throne (third-person singular simple present thrones, present participle throning, simple past and past participle throned)

thrones (present singular third-person)
throning (participle present)
throned (participle past)
throned (past)

(intransitive, archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.


perch

perch (third-person singular simple present perches, present participle perching, simple past and past participle perched)

perches (present singular third-person)
perching (participle present)
perched (participle past)
perched (past)

From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff”, “long pole”, “measuring rod”).

der

The platform was already crowded, but the newcomers threaded their way to the front amid a decorous murmur of welcome. Mr. Peeble shoved and exhorted and two end seats emerged upon which Enid and Malone perched themselves.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.


litter

en-noun

litter (countable and uncountable, plural litters)

From Middle English litere, lytere, &c., from Anglo-Norman litere, litiere, &c., from Old French litiere (“bedding; bed of loose straw; litter”), from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding; blankets”), from Latin lectus (“bed; couch”) + -āria (“forming related nouns”), from Proto-Italic *lektos (“[thing] lain upon”), from *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with French lit and litière.

der

Reading and Leeds Festivals
Saint George Hare
litter
litter (disambiguation)

枯枝落叶层

layer of dead leaves and other organic matter

andor

litter used for Portuguese Catholic processions

takhtrawan

enclosed Middle Eastern & Indian animal-borne litters or open Persian & Indian human-borne mobile thrones

chowpaul

open Indian litter with arched support pole

nalki

princely Indian litter borne by many men; a groom's litter

mikoshi

ceremonial Japanese litter for Shinto idols

He ordeyned lyttyers for the wounded knyghtes.

c. 1480, Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Morte d'Arthur:

(countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

(medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.

When they went out, they sat in litters, which were curtained.

1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 219:

"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.

1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:

(countable, loosely) The general category of all such similar vehicles, inclusive of sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.

مِحَفَّة

platform designed to carry a person or a load — see also sedan chair, palanquin

Silkworms... must be well cleansed from the litter.

1835, Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures, page 232:

The heir of an estate... troubled himself little about decorating his abode, and, if he attempted decoration, seldom produced anything but deformity. The litter of a farmyard gathered under the windows of his bedchamber, and the cabbages and gooseberry bushes grew close to his hall door.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England..., volume I, page 320:

(uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.


litter

en-verb

litter (third-person singular simple present litters, present participle littering, simple past and past participle littered)

litters (present singular third-person)
littering (participle present)
littered (participle past)
littered (past)

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.


seat

From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”).
Sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”).
Cognates
* Middle Dutch gesaete
* Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)

cog

would you mind putting on your seat belt

She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.

A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

Hey, fighter boy, our radar's putting out enough energy to launch your seat from this distance!

(aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.

She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.

1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

George was a perfect picture on horseback; he had a light, firm seat, and seemed as if he were a part of his horse, and was only happy when away in the saddle for hours together, mustering cattle or tracking a missing horse.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 85:

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.


sit up

en-verb

sit up (third-person singular simple present sits up, present participle sitting up, simple past and past participle sat up)

sits up (present singular third-person)
sitting up (participle present)
sat up (participle past)
sat up (past)

From Middle English upsitten (“to sit up”).

I sat up all night waiting for her to come home.

To not go to bed (notionally remaining in a sitting position).


sit down

sit<,,sat:sate􂀿dated, poetic􂁀,sat:sitten􂀿archaic, dialectal􂁀> down

sit down (third-person singular simple present sits down, present participle sitting down, simple past sat down or (dated, poetic) sate down, past participle sat down or (archaic, dialectal) sitten down)

sits down (present singular third-person)
sitting down (participle present)
sat down (past)
sate down (dated past poetic)
sat down (participle past)
sitten down (archaic dialectal participle past)

Sit down! We have work to do.

And lo / many publicans and ſynners / cam and ſatt downe alſo with Ieſus / and his diſciples.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew ix:[10], folio xj, recto:

From thence he cometh forth again ⁊ ſitteth down vnder his cloth of eſtate.

1560 September 25, Ihon Daus, transl., A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries, Concerning the State of Religion and Common Wealth, […], London: […] Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England, folio cccxij, verso:

When ſhe knew this galley a farre of, ſhe lift vp a ſigne in the poope of her ſhippe, and ſo Antonius comming to it, was pluckt vp where Cleopatra was, howbeit he ſaw her not at his firſt comming, nor ſhe him, but went and ſate down alone in the prowe of his ſhippe, and ſaid neuer a word, clapping his head betwene both his hands.

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Marcus Antonius”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 1001:

Therfore where it is ſuppoſed that Chriſt and his Apoſtles miniſtred & receiued ſitting but by occaſion, and not of purpoſe: becauſe they were ſitting before in eating the paſſeover. wher as if Chriſt had ſitten down of purpoſ to adminiſter the cõmunion, then all that is ſaid is graunted to be ſome purpoſe.

1605, [William Bradshaw], A Proposition. Concerning Kneeling in the Very Act of Receiuing Howsoever. […], page 13:

[…] he made Maracini advance with his men towards Oder, to hinder Orang hells further proceedings, or his joyning with Bannier, which if it had happened time enough, that Elector would have had ſomewhat elſe to doe, then to have ſitten down before a ſtrong Towne which had a prettie Army in the Field to aſſiſt it.

1648, Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato, translated by Henry [Carey, 2nd] Earle of Monmouth, An History of the Late Warres and Other State Affaires of the Best Part of Christendom, Beginning with the King of Swethlands Entrance into Germany, and Continuing to the Yeare 1640, London: W. Wilson, and are to bee sold by Iohn Hardesty, Thomas Huntington, and Thomas Iackson, […], pages 340–341:

[…] and then made to thy ſelf a Reſt, and haſt ſitten down at Eaſe, promiſing to thy ſelf Security in thy profeſſed Formality, where thy Vitals have been ſtopped; […]

1660, W[illiam] S[mith], An Holy Kiss of Peace, Sent from the Seed of Life, Greeting All the Lambs and Little Ones with a Tender Salutation. […], London: […] Robert Wilson, […], page 13:

We sate down to dinner a little after five, and had some beefsteaks and a boiled fowl, but no oyster sauce.

1798 October 24, Jane Austen, “Letter VIII”, in Edward, Lord Brabourne, editor, Letters of Jane Austen, volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], published 1884, →OCLC, page 155:

So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 274:

"[…] my only chance of sitting down was for the hour we were at dinner. […]."

1944 July and August, W. G. Chapman, “The First of the Exeter Expresses”, in Railway Magazine, page 215:

(intransitive) To assume a sitting position from a standing position.

атәара

to assume a sitting position from a standing position


wheelchair

wheelchair (third-person singular simple present wheelchairs, present participle wheelchairing, simple past and past participle wheelchaired)

wheelchairs (present singular third-person)
wheelchairing (participle present)
wheelchaired (participle past)
wheelchaired (past)

Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.

1991, Gosta Blennow, Jaak Jaeken, Lars Martin Wiklund, “Neurological Findings in the Carbohydrate-deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome”, in Acta Paediatrica, volume 80, number s375, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 14–20:

People who took part walked, jogged, ran, rollerbladed and wheelchaired the five kilometers

1996 May 14, “'Human Race'raises fundsfor charit”, in BYU Daily Universe:

They strolled, ran, walked and wheelchaired the track.

1996 June 2, “3,000 JOIN SPIRITED WALK TO HELP RAISE FUNDS IN FIGHT WITH CANCER”, in scholar.lib.vt.edu:


armchair

/ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/

Meronym: arm

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 184:

[W]hen he [Pooh] suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best arm-chair, he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.

1928 October 11, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “In which a House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore”, in The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 2:

A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.


armchair

/ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/

armchair travels

These days I'm an armchair detective.

Armchair tourists who are used to travelling the globe with Google Earth can now use the same technology to crawl all over the masterpieces in one of the world's most famous galleries: the Prado.

2009 January 13, Giles Tremlett, “Google Earth brings masterpieces from Prado museum direct to armchair art lovers”, in The Guardian:

My point here is not that these new armchair soldiers are to be criticized for failing in their moral responsibilities. My point is rather that while drones are to be applauded for keeping these soldiers out of harm’s way physically, we would do well to remember that they do not keep them out of harm’s way morally or psychologically.

2013 March 17, John Kaag, “Drones, Ethics and the Armchair Soldier”, in New York Times Opinionator:

E-petitions have turned us all into armchair activists, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

2015 April 11, Bridget Christie, “We’re a nation of armchair activists – what’s wrong with that?”, in The Guardian:

Armchair Investigators at Front of British Inquiry Into Spy Poisoning [title]

2018 October 9, Michael Schwirtz, Ellen Barry, “Armchair Investigators at Front of British Inquiry Into Spy Poisoning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog.

After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win.

If and when Ms. Cheney decides to marry, it will be interesting to see who offers best wishes, who offers armchair psychoanalysis, and who minds his own business.

2005 April 17, Patrick D. Healy, “Gay Republicans Soldier On, One Skirmish at a Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Judith Collins, who is New Zealand's first female defence minister, said she was appalled to see a "deeply concerning misogynistic narrative" online from "armchair admirals, people who will never have to make decisions which mean life or death for their subordinates".

2024 November 10, “New Zealand defence minister says a navy ship didn't sink because its captain was a woman”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

(figuratively, derogatory) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.


armchair

armchair (third-person singular simple present armchairs, present participle armchairing, simple past and past participle armchaired)

armchairs (present singular third-person)
armchairing (participle present)
armchaired (participle past)
armchaired (past)

/ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/

Research for program's subject matter is like mining gold. The more raw material we have, the more likely we are going to find gold nuggets. But this step is often overlooked and a program is "armchaired" from the office of the vice-president or vice-president of sales.

1966, Sales Management - Volume 97, Issues 8-14, page 31:

The very serious question is then raised as to whether reasonable and logical distractors can be "armchaired" or whether the practice of administering a question in open-end format to obtain logical distractors is a better procedure.

1970, Carmen J. Finley, Frances S. Berdie, The national assessment approach to exercise development, page 84:

We think it makes sense to generate interventions empirically by finding out how couples deal with conflict, rather than by armchairing interventions.

1976, John Mordechai Gottman, A couple's guide to communication, page xxv:

MBTI has four different variables, each of which has two possible values. This could be interpreted as an implicit claim that there are four dimensions to personality, and only two types of personality within each dimension. And Myers and Briggs had no basis on which to make such a claim and just sort of armchaired it. Interpreted that way, the theory is pseudoscientific and dumb.

2014 May 27, Scott Alexander, “On Types Of Typology”, in Slate Star Codex:

To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data.

In past years, we administered this questionnaire and gave the results to the president who sat at a conference table with top management and armchaired some answers.

1968, Daniel C. Pfannstiel, Barbara H. Matthews, Cooperative extension organization and administration:

Briefly it may be stated: Operations come first; concepts follow; theory aims at developing concepts, from operations, plus a nomological network for those concepts, which explains the structure of the data obtained through those operations. And this does not exclude the theorist from doing some 'armchairing' in thinking about logically consistent models, their empirical pentialities, their assumptions and their implications; he may, and usually will, venture some possible empirical interpretations of a model, but in doing so he will carefully avoid any substantive (nonformal) pre-operational definition of a concept or construct.

1976, Dato N De Gruijter, Leo J. Th. van der Kamp, Advances in Psychological and Educational Measurement, page 113:

Even before the Glasses had arrived in New Guinea, two American anthropologists at Tulane University, Ann and J. L. Fischer, had armchaired a connection between kuru and cannibalism by working their way through the findings of a team of anthropologists who had studied the Fore in the early 1950s, Ronald and Catherine Berndt, as well as the many papers on kuru that Gajdusek, Zigas and various Australian investigators had published.

To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect.


highchair

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An elevated chair, often including a built-in tray, used for feeding babies and toddlers.


boatswain's chair

en-noun

boatswain's chair (plural boatswain's chairs)

(nautical) A short board or other seating, secured in a bridle of ropes, used to hoist a man aloft or over the ship’s side for painting and similar work.

puosuntuoli

rope and board for painting side of ship


deck chair

A folding chair in which a wooden frame supports a length of canvas; traditionally used on the beach or onboard a liner.


bring one's arse to an anchor

en-verb

bring<,,brought> one's arse to an anchor

bring one's arse to an anchor (third-person singular simple present brings one's arse to an anchor, present participle bringing one's arse to an anchor, simple past and past participle brought one's arse to an anchor)

brings one's arse to an anchor (present singular third-person)
bringing one's arse to an anchor (participle present)
brought one's arse to an anchor (participle past)
brought one's arse to an anchor (past)

The young Fleming went in search of Smyllie in the Palace Bar, where he and his group were discussing the arguments for and against the Resurrection. "Bring your arse to an anchor, boy," Smyllie instructed Fleming, before ordering him to come for a formal[…].

1983, Hugh Oram, The Newspaper Book: A History of Newspapers in Ireland, 1649-1983, page 182:

‘Well, in that case,’ said Kelly, ‘bring your arse to an anchor,’ inviting him to sit down.

1988, J. Nazareth, The Psychology Of Military Humour, page 181:


shepherdess

From Middle English scheperdesse, shepperdesse; equivalent to shepherd + -ess.

A large and deep armchair with a cushion.


plonk

plonk (third-person singular simple present plonks, present participle plonking, simple past and past participle plonked)

plonks (present singular third-person)
plonking (participle present)
plonked (participle past)
plonked (past)

Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

(reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.


chaise

Unadapted borrowing from French chaise. Doublet of cathedra and chair.

“But why is it necessary, said Edmund, that Crawford’s carriage, or his only should be employed? Why is no use to be made of my mother’s chaise? I could not, when the scheme was first mentioned the other day, understand why a visit from the family were not to be made in the carriage of the family.”

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 159–160:

The next morning after breakfast, Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress's low chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good bye to us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:

An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.

“Now, do me a favor. Could I borrow a beach chaise?” “Beach chaise?” “I promise it's for the float. Something that one might sit out in the sun on.” “What the fuck is a beach chaise? Is that French?” “They're lawn chairs, Seanie.” “Yeah, we got lawn chairs.” “Thank you very much, very kind.”

2023 July 20, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Pride Parade” (17:25 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:


easy chair

"Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!" said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made some civil remark about Toad's delightful residence.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

A comfortable chair, often well upholstered; a lounge chair.


curule

From Latin curūlis (“of or pertaining to a chariot; curule chair”), from currus (“chariot”), from currō (“run”).

uder

Followed by his foolish followers Titus Vinius, who had served him in Spain, Cornelius Laco, an arrogant idiot, and the freedman Icelus Marcianus, who was after Laco’s post, he made for the curule chair.

1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome.

kuruliszi

designating a ceremonial seat used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome


chaise longue

en-noun

chaise longue (plural chaise longues or chaises longues)

chaise longues (plural)
chaises longues (plural)

/ˌʃeɪz ˈlɒŋ(ɡ)/

/ˌʃeɪz ˈlɔŋ/

Borrowed from French chaise longue (literally “long chair”).

bor

(chiefly UK) A reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.


rocking chair

A chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked (swung) back and forth.

ճոճաթոռ

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs


lotus position

A cross-legged sitting position in which the feet are resting on the thigh of the opposite leg; a meditative position in Hinduism and Buddhism, also used in yoga and sexual intercourse.

bardaş

(colloquial) a cross-legged sitting position in which the feet are resting below the lower leg of the opposite leg


wingback

(soccer) A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.

carrilero

soccer: player who doubles as a defender and winger

(American football) A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.

One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.


fauteuil

/ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/

Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.

doublet

Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:


bucket seat

Apparently from French baquet (“cockpit”), from early twentieth-century French aircraft.

A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport.


electric chair

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She much preferred her manual wheelchair, so we got into the routine of using the manual chair out of school, and the electric chair at school. The one thing that she did find amusing about the electric chair was that she had to take a 'driving test'.

2006, Molvia Maddox, Perfectly Flawed, →ISBN, page 90:

While I was "driving" in my electric chair to the only liquor store in town, the owner of the store would always smile when he saw me and say, "I don't know if I should sell to you. I don't want to be responsible for you drinking and driving."

2012, Sandra I. Bordenca, It's Okay to Laugh Sometimes, →ISBN, page 40:

He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?"

2012, Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, →ISBN, page 36:

(informal) An electrically powered wheelchair.


lawn chair

(US) Any chair designed to be used outdoors, especially a folding chair with aluminum frame, armrests, and interwoven ribbon mesh seat and back, used on backyard lawns.


sit-in

a sit-in kayak

a sit-in bath


on the edge of one's seat

The movie had me on the edge of my seat right from the beginning.

(idiomatic) In suspense; waiting eagerly or anxiously for some resolution.


take a seat

en-verb

take a seat (third-person singular simple present takes a seat, present participle taking a seat, simple past took a seat, past participle taken a seat)

takes a seat (present singular third-person)
taking a seat (participle present)
took a seat (past)
taken a seat (participle past)

My fellow Americans, please, if you have a seat, take it.

2022 September 1, Joe Biden, “REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE CONTINUED BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION”, in White House, archived from the original on 2022-09-02:


cross-legged

Having one leg over and across the other.

jalat ristissä

having one leg over and across the other

Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.

risti-istunnassa

having one ankle over and across the other


wing chair

He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 33, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:

A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught


daybed

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After this exhausting work was done Agnes would lie upon her daybed with her arms dangling, too fatigued to lift them.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 35:

A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.


teeter-totter

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Either from teeter + totter, or from a reduplication of either element.

(Canada, US, often childish) A seesaw; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats at either end, with a pivot point in the center.

(Northeastern US, Atlantic Canada, often childish) A type of glider swing; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a tandem swing attached to a swingset, with two riders facing each other.


teeter-totter

teeter-totter (third-person singular simple present teeter-totters, present participle teeter-tottering, simple past and past participle teeter-tottered)

teeter-totters (present singular third-person)
teeter-tottering (participle present)
teeter-tottered (participle past)
teeter-tottered (past)

(Canada, US, intransitive) To ride a seesaw.


child safety seat

en-noun

child safety seat (plural child safety seats)

DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"...
 LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.

2021 January 13, Stephen Joseph Dubner, “How Much Do We Really Care about Children?”, in Freakonomics Radio, Episode 447:

A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.

seient infantil

a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children


recliner

A chair hinged so that the back can be reclined for comfort.


lounger

You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was

2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.:


sedan chair

/səˈdæn ˌtʃɛər/

Clarifying the intended meaning or sense of sedan.

kador-doug

portable chair used as a mode of transport — see also litter, palanquin

In Rio de Janeiro the gentry keep their chaises, which are drawn by mules; the ladies however use a sedan chair, boarded before and behind, with curtains on each side, which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair, by two rods, coming from under its bottom, one on each side, and resting to the top.

1790, George William Anderson, A Collection of Voyages round the World, Vol. I, p. 25

Mr. G.'s published letters have widely diffused his favorite position, that "China is open." He still maintains this position, though others have risen to controvert it. To me it seems that, whether or not it is open to the settlement of missionaries is a matter to be decided only by experiment; to make which, there are not more than himself and three other missionaries sufficiently versed in the language... The worst that would probably happen to a proper man, making the trial, would be, to be placed in a sedan chair, and transmitted to Macao... It is a great mercy that China should be shut, at present, to Christian teachers. Were it otherwise, Protestants are without persons to send; while Popish priests abound in the East, and would instantly enter in great numbers, making the field worse for us, if possible, than now.

1839, Howard Malcom, Travels in South-Eastern Asia..., Vol I, p. 166

The National Code states: "Except the spouses and daughters of royal families, and the mothers, wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law of chief officials [tangsanggwan], as well as the brides of officials [ŭmgwan] who are appointed without taking state civil service examinations, no one is allowed to ride in a sedan chair with a canopy [okgyoja], and the violators of this statute shall be punished by eighty strokes of beating with a heavy stick..." However, the womenfolk of the yamen clerks in the Honam region alone all ride in sedan chairs with canopies, letting down colorful bead screens and being escorted by their servants, who shout to make a way ahead... As the decline of old families and famous clans becomes serious day by day, the sedan chairs that they use are so worn out that they are bound by ropes of straw; the destroyed canopy is replaced by a mat, the drapery by a dress, and the bead screen by a cut-off fish trap. They place the sedan chair on the back of a cow... These are the things we hear about nowadays.

2010, Jeong Yak-yong, translated by Choi Byong-hyon, Admonitions on Governing the People, page 479:

(chiefly historical) An open or enclosed chair raised on poles and carried by people or animals, used as a mode of transport.

bocha (2-door enclosed elevated Indian form)

Another way of carrying a patient is upon what is known among school-boys as a ‘sedan-chair’, each bearer grasping his own fore-arm and that of his fellow about its middle... and the patient grasping the bearers' necks.

1869, Cassell's Household Guide, volume I, page 72:

(games) An equivalent mode of transport created by two people grasping each other's forearms, making a seat for the rider.


patio chair

A chair designed for outdoor use, on porches, decks and patios, frequently as part of a set with an umbrella-shade-equipped table


sit on

en-verb

sit on (third-person singular simple present sits on, present participle sitting on, simple past and past participle sat on)

sits on (present singular third-person)
sitting on (participle present)
sat on (participle past)
sat on (past)

The cat sat on the mat.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on.


folding chair

A light portable chair that can be stored in a stack, row or on a specially designed cart. They are produced in a variety of styles, folding mechanisms and materials.


office chair

A chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is generally comfortable and adjustable and can swivel 360 degrees and has wheels.


piano bench

A rectangular wooden bench where a pianist can sit while playing the piano.

pianotuoli

a rectangular wooden bench used while playing the piano


piano stool

A round wooden stool used by piano players. It is less stable than the rectangular piano bench. The height can be adjusted by simply spinning the seat clockwise or counterclockwise, respectively.


beach chair

A special chair designed to provide comfort and protection from sun, wind, rain, and sand on beaches frequented by tourists.


camping chair

A lightweight folding chair used by campers.

kokkupandav tool

a lightweight folding chair used by campers


kneeling chair

A type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an angle of about 60 to 70 degrees from vertical (as opposed to 90 degrees when sitting in a normal chair), with some of the body's weight supported by the shins.


Indian style

Probably from the Indian lotus position (compare Polish siedzieć po turecku and Romanian ședea turcește which mean "to sit in a Turkish style", in reference to the Turks' similar sitting style), or possibly from the way some Native American Indians (indigenous peoples of the Americas) sat.


criss-cross applesauce

Etymology
Rhyming on criss-cross, particularly with a word familiar to children and teachers, possibly with similarity to lap forming a bowl.
Apparently originated in the 1990s US, as an alternative for Indian style.
Compare also traditional children’s rhyming game / massage (rhyme said while touching, tickling, and blowing), which goes:
: Criss, cross. Apple sauce.
: Spiders climbing up your back.
: Spiders here, Spiders there.
: Spiders even in your hair.
: Cool breeze,
: Tight squeeze,
: And now you have the shivers.
: Brrrrrrr.

Sit criss-cross applesauce.

(childish, US, regional, idiomatic) (of sitting): Cross-legged.


tailor-fashion

From the traditional sitting posture of tailors.
Compare tailor's bunion, tailor's muscle.


cacolet

From French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).

An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.

artolas

A twinned chair mounted on a pack animal

(medicine, especially historical and military) A stretcher mounted on a pack animal similarly or singly.


have a seat

have a seat (third-person singular simple present has a seat, present participle having a seat, simple past and past participle had a seat)

has a seat (present singular third-person)
having a seat (participle present)
had a seat (participle past)
had a seat (past)

Thanks for coming in. Please, have a seat.

(idiomatic) A polite directive to sit down

asseyez-vous (je vous en prie or s'il vous plaît)


take a load off

take a load off (third-person singular simple present takes a load off, present participle taking a load off, simple past took a load off, past participle taken a load off)

takes a load off (present singular third-person)
taking a load off (participle present)
took a load off (past)
taken a load off (participle past)

Likely an ellipsis of take a load off one's feet.

(informal, idiomatic) To go from a standing position to a sitting one.


faldstool

A portable, folding chair used by a bishop when away from his throne.


dooly

From Hindi डोली (ḍolī), from डोला (ḍolā, “litter”) + -ई (-ī, “forming diminutives”), from Sanskrit दोल (dōlā, “dangling cradle; litter”), from दुल् (dul, “to swing”). Compare andor from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola) via Portuguese.

der

The dhulí is a slight bamboo framework covered with coarse cloth, about two and a half feet square, with a bedding made of string woven across, on which the passenger sits. It is slung on a stout bamboo pole, and carried by two or four men.

1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, pages 81-82:

He said I should not be able to ride much farther, as the pass beyond Sultanpoor was utterly impracticable for horses; coolies, however, awaited me with a dooly, one of those low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel swiftly and without effort, but to the destruction of the digestive organs.

(India, now chiefly historical) A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.


bocha

When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.

1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658

Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.

1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41

[…] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]

1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:

[…] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]

1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:

(India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.


set a spell

en-verb

set a spell (third-person singular simple present sets a spell, present participle setting a spell, simple past and past participle set a spell)

sets a spell (present singular third-person)
setting a spell (participle present)
set a spell (participle past)
set a spell (past)

[S]he declined his invitation to "Come up and see the old woman and set a spell."

1876, Louisa May Alcott, “The Romance of a Summer Day”, in Silver Pitchers: and Independence:

"You might as well set down," remarked Miss Hitty, with a new gentleness of manner. "I'm going to set a spell."

1906, Myrtle Reed, chapter 2, in A Spinner in the Sun:

Hank's Hardware is one of those quintessentially American places. . . . Hank's is a place where people can set a spell, but it is also a business, competing in the ever-tightening hardware marketplace.

2000 January 30, Steve Strunsky, “New Jersey and Co.: Inside 'Big Box' Project, Threats to 'Little Boxes'”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-25:

In this country community, we enjoy our neighbors as we never could before. There is time to set a spell and talk about the weather, family and days gone by.

2005 November 24, Jean Parks, “Opinion: Retirement fulfills”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-06-25:

(US, idiomatic, countrified dialect) To sit down for a period of time, especially in the company of other people and in order to relax or to engage in casual conversation.


elbow chair

she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.

1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section II:

[…] Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her, […]

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 293:

The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.

2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

A chair with long armrests for the elbows.


take a pew

take a pew (third-person singular simple present takes a pew, present participle taking a pew, simple past took a pew, past participle taken a pew)

takes a pew (present singular third-person)
taking a pew (participle present)
took a pew (past)
taken a pew (participle past)

There are many ways of inviting a person to seat himself. The genial ‘take a pew’ of one's equal inspires confidence. The raucous ‘sit down in front’ of the frenzied pit, when you stand up to get a better view of the stage, is not so pleasant.

1903, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in A Prefect's Uncle:

"Oh!" he said, looking round him with his chin a little in the air, "am I intruding, Turl?" . . .
"Not at all, Berryman—take a pew!"

1904, John Galsworthy, chapter 18, in The Island Pharisees:

"Come in," he said cheerily. "I'm delighted to see you. Take a pew."

1919, William Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in Moon and Sixpence:

"Come in. Come in. Take a pew. Cigarette?"

1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 1, in The Man with the Golden Gun:

(UK, idiomatic) To take a seat; to sit down.


bedchair

A chair with adjustable back to enable an invalid to sit up in bed.


gestatorial chair

en-noun

gestatorial chair (plural gestatorial chairs)

A calque of Latin and Italian sedia gestatoria (“carrying chair”).

bor

(historical) A sedan chair used as a portable throne by popes.


coach box

The coachman's seat (on a horse-drawn vehicle)


orthopneic position

en-noun

orthopneic position (plural orthopneic positions)

A position in which a person sits upright in a bed, possibly bending forward.


downsitting

Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 139:2:

The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.


Muskoka chair

From Muskoka + chair, after the Muskoka Lakes region of Ontario.

(Canada) A kind of outdoor lounge chair made of wood, with wide arm rests; Adirondack chair.


Adirondack chair

Adirondack chair (plural Adirondack chairs)

After the Adirondacks, a mountain chain in New York State.

Nurse Graves […] wheeled him out onto the veranda, where he was lifted into an Adirondack chair and positioned so that he was facing the sun—or, rather, the spot in the firmament the sun might have occupied if it hadn't gone south for the winter.

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 104:

(Canada, US) A kind of outdoor lounge chair made of wood, with wide arm rests.


Elijah seat

But Cohn can and does extend "recognition," suspecting from the beginning a significant core of feeling in the immense isolato, seeing hints of a "true gentleman" and even going so far as to offer him the Elijah seat at the Seder.

1987, Joel Salzberg, Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud, G. K. Hall, →ISBN, page 219:

Because of my schedule of chores, the seder was half-over when I arrived and there was a choice of two seats: one right beside the rabbi, or else Elijah's seat, a chair that sits empty in case the prophet Elijah turns up with the Messiah in tow, on his donkey. I sat beside Michael as I am not Elijah, and I have absolutely no messianic pretensions or connections, and thus the Elijah seat implied responsibilities that I did not care to take on.

2003 September 7, Bonnie Glassford, Living the Sacred Story: A Journey Into the Landscape of the Bible, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 196:

The Elijah seat on which the sandák sits and the performance of the brit at the synagogue as a religious ritual are elements that help affirm the link to Judaism.

2004, Matilda Koén-Sarano, King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition, Wayne State University Press, page 193:

(Judaism) In Jewish ceremonies, an unoccupied seat reserved for the prophet Elijah.


pull up a chair

en-verb

pull up a chair (third-person singular simple present pulls up a chair, present participle pulling up a chair, simple past and past participle pulled up a chair)

pulls up a chair (present singular third-person)
pulling up a chair (participle present)
pulled up a chair (participle past)
pulled up a chair (past)

Pull up a chair! The meeting's about to begin.

(chiefly imperative) To sit down on a chair: to go from a non-seated position to sitting on a chair.


pull up a floor

pull up a floor (third-person singular simple present pulls up a floor, present participle pulling up a floor, simple past and past participle pulled up a floor)

pulls up a floor (present singular third-person)
pulling up a floor (participle present)
pulled up a floor (participle past)
pulled up a floor (past)

(humorous, chiefly imperative) Sit down on a floor.


seiza

From Japanese 正座 (seiza, literally “proper sitting”).

bor

She arranged herself with her legs folded beneath her, spine erect, echoing “seiza”, the Japanese sitting position adopted in formal situations.

2024 February 10, Helen Barrett, “The underappreciated style of Yoko Ono”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 5:

A traditional formal way of sitting in Japan, by kneeling with the legs folded underneath the thighs and the buttocks resting on the heels, with ankles turned outward.


chairness

There was, according to him [an artificial monster created by a Swedish scientist], a 'goodness' that made things good, an 'evil principle' that made them bad, [...] and a 'chairness' or 'boxness' that made things chairs and boxes.

1870 December 29, “A New Adam in Sweden”, in Daily Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA, page 1:

Similarly when we call triangularity or chairness an idea or notion or concept, we do not mean to deny that these natures are really manifested in particulars; we are only saying that their reality, like that of the particulars, presupposes a thinking subject.

1907, H. A. Prichard, “A Criticism of the Psychologists' Treatment of Knowledge”, in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, volume 16, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 34:

He extended his finger and outlined the shape of the chair. "It's about forms and negative space—she's taken the chairness away from the chair and left it purely object."

2003, Ann Packer, chapter 18, in The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Contemporaries, →ISBN, page 177:

I can identify the pattern of wood grain on my chair at Mom and Dad's kitchen table, but I don't try to sketch it in my mind. For me, chairness is nonvisual; it's the feel of a seat connected to four legs and a backrest.

2011, Thad Nodine, chapter 3, in Touch and Go: A Novel, [Lakewood, Colo.]: Unbridled Books, →ISBN, page 39:

When you look at a chair, you are aware of its shape from a particular point of view, but defenders of this objection insist that you are also aware of its chairness.

2012, Jesse J. Prinz, “Where is Consciousness? The Intermediate Level”, in The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience (Philosophy of Mind), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

The essence of what it means to be a chair; the qualities that make a chair what it is.


priority seat

A seat on public transport reserved for use by people with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women and others in need.

vanhuksille ja liikuntaesteisille varattu paikka


manspreading

From man + spreading. Popularized in 2014, perhaps patterned after mansplaining. Equal to manspread + -ing.

/ˈmænˌspɹɛdɪŋ/

Coordinate term: womanspreading

The new ads — aimed at curbing rude behavior like manspreading and wearing large backpacks on crowded trains — are set to go up in the subways next month.

2014 December 20, Emma G. Fitzsimmons, “A scourge is spreading. M.T.A.’s cure? Dude, close your legs”, in The New York Times:

Manspreading is certainly bad manners in a crowded subway – and so is other stuff, like people wielding giant backpacks.

2015 January 10, Margaret Wente, “Advice to younger women: Practise manning up”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto:

Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram show thousands pictures of men engaging in this behaviour, and New York's transit authority launched a campaign against ‘manspreading’, with a Tumblr dedicated: Men Taking Up Too Much Space On The Train.

2015 January 16, Natasha Devon, “The rise of stranger shaming: How humiliating others became acceptable”, in The Independent, London:

Manspreading creates stability for your pelvis and lower back. You can either position your feet together and let your knees fall to the sides or spread your feet wide.

2016, Kelly Starrett, Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World, page 190:

(informal, derogatory) The practice of men splaying their legs open wide when sitting on public transport, thus occupying more than one seat.


dining chair

A chair, usually in a dining room, designed to be used at a dining table.

餐椅

chair designed to be used at a dining table


elbow-chair

(now rare) Alternative form of elbow chair


Windsor chair

The first chairs made this way were shipped to London from the market town of Windsor, Berkshire in 1724. There is speculation that the chair derives its name from the town of Windsor, which became the centre for the trade between the producers and the London dealers.

A chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes.


monk chair

A kind of rectangular wooden bench or armchair.


tonjon

The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.

1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21:

The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago.

1931 June, Frank E. Bushby, "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XLI, Nos. 81–82, p. 139

(South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.


Eames chair

Designed by Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company.

An iconic easy chair of the 1950s, made from plywood and leather.


zaisu

A traditional Japanese chair with no legs but a normal back.


grandfather chair

en-noun

grandfather chair (plural grandfather chairs)


massage chair

A chair designed so that a massage therapist can easily access the head, shoulders, and back of the seated person.


wingback chair

A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught.


lady's chair

A curved Victorian chair designed to complement a woman's figure.


passenger seat

Coordinate term: driver's seat

(automotive) A seat in a vehicle for a passenger, especially the front seat next to the driver in a motor vehicle.


barber chair

en-verb

barber chair (third-person singular simple present barber chairs, present participle barber chairing, simple past and past participle barber chaired)

barber chairs (present singular third-person)
barber chairing (participle present)
barber chaired (participle past)
barber chaired (past)

A severely leaning tree which is greater than 12 inches on the stump can "barber chair" by splitting prematurely during the felling cut so that the butt of the main tree trunk pivots upward toward the chainsaw user's head, if special felling techniques are not used.

1985, N.Y. Forest Owner, New York Forest Owners Association, page 193:

Figure 4-6 A shows a tree that barber chaired when the back cut was too low. Figure 4-6 B shows why it's called a “barber chair”.

1987, Dave Roberts, Pipe & Excavation Contracting, Craftsman Book Company, →ISBN, page 148:

This is because the trunk can “barber chair” before it falls.

2012, Frank Philbrick, Stephen Philbrick, The Backyard Lumberjack, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:


camp stool

A lightweight, folding chair designed to be used when camping.


rocking stool

The Garda van was parked in the yard, and the two young Gards were struggling to get the rocking-stool out of the back.

2016, L.E. Hartley, The Broken Mirror, →ISBN, page 273:

He continued to stare out the window, accompanied by Johnny's groans and the rhythmic squeaking of the rocking stool.

1990, Robert Upton, A killing in real estate: an Amos McGuffin mystery, →ISBN, page 155:


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:


planter's chair

en-noun

planter's chair (plural planter's chairs)

Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 203:

A type of wooden one-person armchair with wickerwork backing, designed to be used in tropical climates.


bar chair

→ Japanese: バーチェアー (bācheā) / → Japanese: ばーちぇあー (bācheā)

Past the bar was a little area in an alcove that contained a few tall, round tables and bar chairs.

2004, Kathy Love, Wanting What You Get, New York: Zebra Books, published by Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, (eBook):

He ordered a Corona, stretched and groaned as he lowered himself into a too small bar chair.

2005, Buff Brazy Given, Simon’s Story: A Novel, [sine loco]: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 161:

Bar chairs were heavy with high backs that prevented many a drunk’s reverse gainer.

2005, R. J. Grubb, Mordray’s Whale, New York/Lincoln/Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 130:

The door was guarded by a retired cop named Frankie the Golfer, who sat by the door in an upholstered bar chair that he leaned back against the wall.

2013, John Dufresne, No Regrets, Coyote, New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, (eBook):

Roy pulled his bulk off the bar chair. Joe held it for Megan, who had to step onto the bar rail to lift herself onto the chair.

2013, Richard Rose, The Lazarus Conspiracies, Honolulu, HI, USA: Savant Books, →ISBN, page 154:

A tall chair-like seat usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.


ice-cream chair

ice-cream chair (plural ice-cream chairs)

From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.

Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere.

1985, Marshall B. Davidson, Elizabeth Stillinger, The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 186:

I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain while searching for pennies to throw.

2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair: A Novel, page 55:

At the small table he grasps its matching ice-cream chair opposite Cossetti's, sits and palms a worn deck of cards.

2012, Georgette Beck, The Song of Sylvania Square, page 26:

A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.


Barcelona chair

Barcelona chair (plural Barcelona chairs)

From Barcelona, Spain, where the International Exhibition of 1929, at which the chair was first exhibited, was held.

The Barcelona Chair was designed in 1929 for the German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

2001, Kimberly Elam, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition:

The Barcelona chair commanded the staggering price of $550, however, and that was wholesale.

2009, Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House, page 48:

Marble, travertine, brass and plate glass were deployed to majestic effect, and within the cool, calm interior the Barcelona chairs and accompanying ottomans took on a monumental presence.

2009, Design Museum Enterprise Limited, Fifty Chairs that Changed the World:

Following his move to America in 1938, he did not come up with any new furniture designs; the Barcelona chair remains his most famous work.

A chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve that shapes the back and front legs intersecting with a shallow S-shaped curve that shapes the seat and back legs, no arms, and padded leather cushions.


side chair

An armless chair, usually used in dining room settings.


reception chair

reception chair (plural reception chairs)


tailorwise

From tailor + -wise, referring to the traditional working posture of tailors. Compare tailor-fashion, tailor's bunion, tailor's muscle and tailor-style.

While sitting on a chair or bench there is no difficulty in holding the trunk erect, because now the hamstring muscles are not only relaxed but further slackened at the lower end by flexion of the knee; the hips will flex several degrees farther here and also in sitting on the floor if the knees are flexed, tailorwise.

1923, Wilbur Pardon Bowen, Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology, page 170:

His shoes off, and his bare feet tucked under his legs, he sat tailorwise and peered up at the giant.

2012, Max Brand, The Garden of Eden, page 101:

Perched tailorwise on the bed, I myself stared like an owl into the gloom.

2014, Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love, page 126:

With the legs crossed in front of one and the ankles on the ground.


rotating chair

He sat in a rotating chair behind a broad table, which was covered with books, maps, and diagrams.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:


basket chair

Instead of answering, Professor Challenger entered, shook hands with myself and Lord John, bowed with ponderous insolence to Professor Summerlee, and sank back into a basket-chair, which creaked and swayed beneath his weight.

A chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork.


flap seat

After several minutes, Liebknecht stood barefoot in a suit of long winter underwear. Some of its buttons were missing and the flap seat was baggy from too much laundering.

1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New York: Simon and Schuster, Book 4, p. 273:

They wrapped themselves up to their eyes in thick sweaters, heavy shirts, wool socks and long union suits with flap seats.

1970, Winston M. Estes, chapter 9, in Another Part of the House,, New York: Avon, published 1978, page 129:

Grant put on an oversized flannel nightshirt and fuzzy elephant slippers. Asa had baggy red footies with a flap seat. Even Patty wore old pj’s.

1988, Norma Fox Mazer, chapter 19, in Silver, New York: Avon, published 1989, page 107:

A flap on the part of an undergarment or night garment that covers the buttocks.


sitspot

Shortly it is to be shorn of its standardization, its monotony of same acts and faces and same whangs on the sitspot. Vaudeville has cleaned house. The old order changeth. It is in new and capable hands.

He knew she was close to releasing so he gave her one very hard smack to each sitspot.

Another strike across her ass, then another a little below, and then he landed the last at the most sensitive point, her sitspot, the place where her ass curved into her thighs.

The central part of each buttock on which a person rests while sitting.


Old Sparky

[…]and I think that, for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the stout oak of “Old Sparky’s” legs.

1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile, page 3:

(US, slang) Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.


Merlin chair

Named after its inventor, John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803).

She has a gay Turn, but Ill health has long confined her to a Merlin Chair, in wᶜʰ however She travels not incommodiously, and is wheeled about.

1797 September 19, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:

A type of early wheelchair, which the occupant propels by means of crank-handles in the armrests.


gaming chair

Two floors above, a young Sellafield employee sat in a gaming chair, working at a laptop with a joystick. He was manoeuvring an ROV fitted with a toilet brush – “a regular brush, bought at the store,” he said, “just kind of reinforced with a bit of plastic tube”.

December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

An office chair-like chair designed for comfort during video gaming.


rolling chair

He is now confined to Bed & Room, & has been out only in a Bath rolling Chair since we return'd from that Place this Spring after the Influenza.


nursing chair

A kind of comfortable chair that was used for mothers to nurse their babies.


take a chair

en-verb

take a chair (third-person singular simple present takes a chair, present participle taking a chair, simple past took a chair, past participle taken a chair)

takes a chair (present singular third-person)
taking a chair (participle present)
took a chair (past)
taken a chair (participle past)

Consequently Mr. Micawber was soon so overcome, that he mingled his tears with hers and mine; until he begged me to do him the favour of taking a chair on the staircase, while he got her into bed.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

To sit down (usually, but not always, in a chair).


Aeron

A river in Ceredigion, Wales, which flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron.


Aeron

Aerons were hailed as triumphs of industrial design.


W-sitting

(medicine) An abnormal posture in which a person sits with their knees forward and feet splayed outward.


Savonarola chair

en-noun

Savonarola chair (plural Savonarola chairs)


infant safety seat

infant safety seat (plural infant safety seats)

Use an infant safety seat until your child is over 20 pounds and able to sit up alone. Keep your child facing backward as long as possible because it protects him from neck injuries.

1994, Department of Paediatrics, “Car Safety Seats”, in Infant Health Handbook, Gallup Indian Medical Center, page 22:

Place the infant safety seat, if at all possible, in the middle of the backseat—the safest spot in the car.

2008, Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, What to Expect the First Year, Workman Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 139:

Safety programs have targeted parents and children, and laws requiring seat belt use have been enacted. A successful educational program provided computer-assisted video instruction on using an infant safety seat to mothers before leaving the hospital after giving birth.

2020, Edward P. Sarafino, Timothy W. Smith, David B. King, Anita De Longis, Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions, Wiley, →ISBN, page 307:

child safety seat
child safety seat#English

Synonym of child safety seat, particularly versions designed for very young children.


butterfly chair

butterfly chair (plural butterfly chairs)

A type of chair featuring a metal frame, bearing resemblance to a butterfly's wings, and a large sling hung from the frame's highest points, creating a suspended seat.