"Merlin chair" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after its inventor, John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Merlin chairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Merlin chair (plural Merlin chairs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chairs",
          "orig": "en:Chairs",
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            "Sitting",
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            "Body",
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        },
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          "name": "Disability",
          "orig": "en:Disability",
          "parents": [
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            "Society",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1797 September 19, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of early wheelchair, which the occupant propels by means of crank-handles in the armrests."
      ],
      "id": "en-Merlin_chair-en-noun-NI4IjxK5",
      "links": [
        [
          "wheelchair",
          "wheelchair"
        ],
        [
          "crank",
          "crank"
        ],
        [
          "armrest",
          "armrest"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "John Joseph Merlin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Merlin chair"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after its inventor, John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Merlin chairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Merlin chair (plural Merlin chairs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Chairs",
        "en:Disability"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1797 September 19, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of early wheelchair, which the occupant propels by means of crank-handles in the armrests."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wheelchair",
          "wheelchair"
        ],
        [
          "crank",
          "crank"
        ],
        [
          "armrest",
          "armrest"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "John Joseph Merlin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Merlin chair"
}