"chairward" meaning in English

See chairward in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Etymology: chair + -ward Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|chair|ward}} chair + -ward Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} chairward (not comparable)
  1. Toward a chair. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-chairward-en-adv-YOJF~uCX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ward

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          "ref": "1939, Scribner's Magazine",
          "text": "in the day of long skirts, a woman leaped chairward at the cry of “mouse!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Jack Stephens, Triangulation: A Novel",
          "text": "Guy expels a hard, tight-lipped sigh and lets gravity pull him chairward",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Elaine Dandh, Memsahib",
          "text": "she was in mid-sit, her bottom irretrievably moving chairward",
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