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wheel-chair
Also wheelchair, wheel chair.
[f. wheel n. + chair n.1]
1. A chair on wheels used by invalids or the disabled; also = Bath-chair s.v. Bath n.2 2.
a1700Evelyn Diary 11 Jan. 1662, My Lord Aubignie..shew'd us..his wheele-chaire for ease and motion. 1817Jane Austen Let. ? May (1952) 497, I..am to..be promoted to a wheel-chair as the weather serves. 1841Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii. 77 A servant passes, pushing..a shabby wheel-chair. 1890Harper's Mag. Mar. 613/1 Mrs. Aydler flitted backward and forward in her wheel chair. 1904Lee Recoll. Gen. R. E. Lee 196 When put in her wheel⁓chair, she could propel herself on a level floor. 1958Times 15 Sept. 11/1, I was in no condition to register the details of arriving in the hospital ward in a wheelchair. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 584/2 Britain banned a team of 5 White and 5 Black young Rhodesians confined to wheelchairs from coming to the U.K. to participate in games for the disabled at Stoke Mandeville, Bucks. 1981Sunday Times 14 June 86 A lot of people seem slightly on edge at meeting me in a wheelchair but my main aim is to dispel this straight away.
2. attrib. and Comb., as wheelchair patient, wheel-chair wounded; wheelchair-bound, wheel-chair-ridden adjs.; also with reference to sporting events for those confined to wheelchairs, as wheelchair athlete, wheel-chair games, wheel-chair Olympics, wheel-chair slalom.
1972Wheelchair athlete [see wheelchair games below]. 1981Daily Mail 17 June 38/5, I am fortunate enough not to be wheelchair-bound.
1972R. C. Adams et al. Games, Sports & Exercises (ed. 2) iii. 10/2, 1960..marked the first time the wheelchair games were held along with the Olympic Games... Wheelchair athletes from all over the globe were greeted by the Pope. 1972Even. Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 5 Aug. 18/1 The Wheelchair Olympics..were started after the Second World War for crippled war veterans. They have since become games for athletes with spinal cord injuries or those who have been paralysed by polio.
1970Stoke Mandeville Dict. Managem. Paraplegic Patients 4 Occasionally indicated on the stiff hip or knee of wheelchair-patients.
1968T. Stoppard Real Inspector Hound 16 Magnus, the wheelchair-ridden half-brother to her ladyship's husband Lord Albert Muldoon.
1964Times 12 Nov. 11/3 Carol Bryant..won a gold medal in the wheelchair slalom. 1982Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 15/1 He would not change his mind about excluding ‘wheelchair wounded’ from the Falklands victory parade.
Hence ˈwheel-chaired a., in or confined to a wheelchair.
1938Amer. Speech XIII. 196 Wheel-chaired. 1973Times 11 Apr. 8/6 A mini-bus is used in one of our split⁓site comprehensives to carry wheelchaired pupils from building to building. 1977New Scientist 3 Mar. 499/1 Another council decision..caused the AAAS's wheel⁓chaired delegates to wheel themselves out of the room in disgust. |