sedan chairn.

Now Historical.

a. = sedan n. 1a, 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair

bearing-chair1352

seat1588

sedge1615

chair1634

man-litter1640

sedan1640

chair-volant1667

street-chaira1712

sedan chair1750

stick chair1800

tonjonc1804

jampan1828

1750 Will in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics (1889) 6 My sedan chair.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. i. 25 The ladies however use a sedan chair,..which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair.

1807 Med. Jrnl. 21 379 To allow the patient to be carried home in a sedan chair.

1840 H. Malcom Trav. 52/1 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.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 14 Sedan Chairs..were the usual modes of conveyance..to parties, balls [etc.].

b. transferred (see quot. 1869).

ΚΠ

1869 Cassell's Househ. Guide (1870) I. 72 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.

Compounds

sedan-chair clock n. = sedan-chair watch n.

ΚΠ

1951 E. Wenham Old Clocks for Mod. Use vii. 47 It is still possible to obtain one of these..portable timepieces generally referred to as ‘Sedan chair clocks’ or, to give them another earlier name, ‘post-chaise clocks’.

1960 House & Garden Apr. 99/3 Sedan-chair clocks..reproductions and an antique.

sedan-chair watch n. Historical a large travelling watch of a type supposed to have been hung in sedan chairs.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch

German watch1611

larum watch1619

clock-watch1625

minute watch1660

pendulum watch1664

watch1666

alarm watch1669

finger watch1679

string-watch1686

scout1688

balance-watch1690

hour-watch1697

warming-pan1699

minute pendulum watch1705

jewel watch1711

suit1718

repeater1725

Tompion1727

pendulum spring1728

second-watch1755

Geneva watch1756

cylinder-watch1765

watch-paper1777

ring watch1788

verge watch1792

watch lamp1823

hack1827

bull's-eye1833

vertical watch1838

quarter-repeater1840

turnip1840

hunting-watch1843

minute repeater1843

hunter1851

job watch1851

Geneva1852

watch-lining1856

touch watch1860

musical watch1864

lever1865

neep1866

verge1871

independent seconds watch1875

stem-winder1875

demi-hunter1884

fob-watch1884

three-quarter plate1884

wrist-watch1897

turnip-watch1898

sedan-chair watch1904

Rolex1922

Tank watch1923

strap watch1926

chatelaine watch1936

sedan clock1950

quartz watch1969

pulsar1970

1904 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) iv. 244 During the eighteenth century watch movements having plain silver dials from three inches to four inches in diameter were fixed in circular frames of wood, polished and with a moulded edge. They were called ‘Sedan Chair Watches’, though I cannot aver that they were as a rule carried in those useful, but obsolete conveyances.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	sedan chair
释义	sedan chairn. Now Historical. a. = sedan n. 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair bearing-chair1352 seat1588 sedge1615 chair1634 man-litter1640 sedan1640 chair-volant1667 street-chaira1712 sedan chair1750 stick chair1800 tonjonc1804 jampan1828 1750 Will in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics (1889) 6 My sedan chair. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. i. 25 The ladies however use a sedan chair,..which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair. 1807 Med. Jrnl. 21 379 To allow the patient to be carried home in a sedan chair. 1840 H. Malcom Trav. 52/1 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. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 14 Sedan Chairs..were the usual modes of conveyance..to parties, balls [etc.]. b. transferred (see quot. 1869). ΚΠ 1869 Cassell's Househ. Guide (1870) I. 72 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. Compounds sedan-chair clock n. = sedan-chair watch n. ΚΠ 1951 E. Wenham Old Clocks for Mod. Use vii. 47 It is still possible to obtain one of these..portable timepieces generally referred to as ‘Sedan chair clocks’ or, to give them another earlier name, ‘post-chaise clocks’. 1960 House & Garden Apr. 99/3 Sedan-chair clocks..reproductions and an antique. sedan-chair watch n. Historical a large travelling watch of a type supposed to have been hung in sedan chairs. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch German watch1611 larum watch1619 clock-watch1625 minute watch1660 pendulum watch1664 watch1666 alarm watch1669 finger watch1679 string-watch1686 scout1688 balance-watch1690 hour-watch1697 warming-pan1699 minute pendulum watch1705 jewel watch1711 suit1718 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pendulum spring1728 second-watch1755 Geneva watch1756 cylinder-watch1765 watch-paper1777 ring watch1788 verge watch1792 watch lamp1823 hack1827 bull's-eye1833 vertical watch1838 quarter-repeater1840 turnip1840 hunting-watch1843 minute repeater1843 hunter1851 job watch1851 Geneva1852 watch-lining1856 touch watch1860 musical watch1864 lever1865 neep1866 verge1871 independent seconds watch1875 stem-winder1875 demi-hunter1884 fob-watch1884 three-quarter plate1884 wrist-watch1897 turnip-watch1898 sedan-chair watch1904 Rolex1922 Tank watch1923 strap watch1926 chatelaine watch1936 sedan clock1950 quartz watch1969 pulsar1970 1904 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) iv. 244 During the eighteenth century watch movements having plain silver dials from three inches to four inches in diameter were fixed in circular frames of wood, polished and with a moulded edge. They were called ‘Sedan Chair Watches’, though I cannot aver that they were as a rule carried in those useful, but obsolete conveyances. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1750
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