chair seater
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From chair seat + -er.
Noun[edit]
chair seater (plural chair seaters)
- (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[edit]
References[edit]
- “chair seater, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.