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Merlin-chair An invalid wheel-chair (so called after its inventor J. J. Merlin 1735–1803).
1835Smedley Let. 4 May in Poems (1837) 429 A Merlin..chair with many appendages and fashions of transformation. 1876Albemarle Fifty Years of My Life I. 242 He [C. J. Fox] used to wheel himself about in what was called a ‘Merlin chair’. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 102/2 Self-propelling Merlin Chair. |