| 单词 | death chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath chair death chair n. (a) a chair for a corpse or with a corpse in it (now rare); (b) a chair for a person condemned to death; a chair in which a person dies; spec. (U.S.) the electric chair. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > electrocution > electric chair electrical chair1756 electric chair1880 death chair1883 chair1900 hot seat1925 hot chair1927 hot squat1928 1842 T. Miller Godfrey Malvern II. xlv. 328 Perhaps he was dead,—we dared not stop to enquire..; and when we turned our heads, the solemn-looking men and the death-chair had gone. 1862 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Mar. 188/1 In the chapel [of Newgate prison], we saw..the death-chair, as it is called, where those who are under the capital sentence always sit. 1869 Mrs. H. Wood Roland Yorke II. ii. xxvii. 85 At Helstonleigh, when they met over John Ollivera's death chair. 1883 Los Angeles Daily Times 6 June (headline) An electrical death chair. 1919 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 269 Pinioned men in the death-chair before the current is switched on. 1920 C. R. Moss Nabaloi Law & Ritual 329 The death chair is generally completed and the deceased placed in it within two hours after death. 1948 Official Detective Stories May 43/2 If I've got to go to the death chair, I want you fellows to help me put it off as long as possible. 2011 McAlester (Oklahoma) News-Capital (Nexis) 25 Feb. ‘Old Sparky’ was fired up for the last time when 29-year-old, two-time murderer James D. French sat in the death chair. < as lemmas |
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