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单词 recliner
释义 recliner|rɪˈklaɪnə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which reclines; spec. a reclining dial or plane.
1668Moxon Mech. Dial. 28 If your Plane be an East Incliner, or a West Recliner.1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xiv. 23 Now we will proceed to draw the Hour-lines in a North Recliner.1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Declining Recliner,..is a dial which neither stands perpendicularly, nor opposite to one of the cardinal points.1867C. B. Cayley in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 590 While from thy lip is hung the breath drawn by the recliner.
2. A chair in which one may comfortably recline; a reclining chair or seat. Also Comb., as recliner chair, recliner seat. orig. U.S.
1928E. O'Neill Strange Interlude ix. 275 There is a stone bench at center, a recliner at right.1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 153 Recliners, Navy ‘issue’ armchairs. (Ward-room.)1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 31/2 (Advt.), The comfort of hushed travel in recliner seats.1977E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xx. 192 Jay Walk, in his desk-chair recliner, had his shoes off.1978Lancashire Life Oct. 115/2 Buoyant Upholstery have just introduced the Wellbeck Chameleon range of fourteen interchangeable items, made up of Chesterfields, unit pieces, settees, recliner chair, wing chair, [etc.].
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