Merlin chairn.

Brit.

/ˈməːlɪn ˌtʃɛː/, U.S.

/ˈmərl(ə)n ˌtʃɛ(ə)r/

Forms: 1700s Merlin's chair, 1700s– Merlin chair.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Merlin , chair n.¹

Etymology: < the name of John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803), Flemish inventor and maker of musical instruments, who invented this kind of wheelchair + chair n.¹

Now historical.

An early type of wheelchair which is propelled by the occupant turning two crank-handles fixed at the ends of the armrests, which turn the two small front wheels of the chair (a third wheel or castor being set in the back rail).The chair is described and illustrated in the Repository (1811) Oct. 225.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelchair

wheelchaira1684

garden chair1729

Merlin chair1791

Bath-chair1823

wheeled chair1847

1791 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. (1972) I. 43 Lady Spencer had sent to her Hous[e] for her Merlin's Chair.

1791 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. (1972) I. 46 She wheeled her Merlin Chair next to me.

1796 Duke of Rutland Jrnl. 28 July in Tour N. Parts Great Brit. (1813) 46 The late proprietor being, during the last ten years of his life, a martyr to the gout and palsy, had constructed a number of Merlin's chairs and other easy seats.

1835 E. Smedley Let. 4 May in Poems (1837) 429 A Merlin..chair with many appendages and fashions of transformation.

1876 Ld. Albemarle Fifty Years of my Life I. 242 He [sc. C. J. Fox] used to wheel himself about in what was called a ‘Merlin chair’.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 102/2 Self-propelling Merlin Chair.

1998 Hist. Today (Electronic ed.) Jan. His [sc. John Joseph Merlin's] place in English history is assured by his introduction of the Merlin Chair, of which a nineteenth-century example is in the Science Museum.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	merlin chair
释义	Merlin chairn. Brit. /ˈməːlɪn ˌtʃɛː/, U.S. /ˈmərl(ə)n ˌtʃɛ(ə)r/ Forms: 1700s Merlin's chair, 1700s– Merlin chair. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Merlin , chair n.¹ Etymology: < the name of John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803), Flemish inventor and maker of musical instruments, who invented this kind of wheelchair + chair n.¹ Now historical. An early type of wheelchair which is propelled by the occupant turning two crank-handles fixed at the ends of the armrests, which turn the two small front wheels of the chair (a third wheel or castor being set in the back rail).The chair is described and illustrated in the Repository (1811) Oct. 225. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelchair wheelchaira1684 garden chair1729 Merlin chair1791 Bath-chair1823 wheeled chair1847 1791 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. (1972) I. 43 Lady Spencer had sent to her Hous[e] for her Merlin's Chair. 1791 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. (1972) I. 46 She wheeled her Merlin Chair next to me. 1796 Duke of Rutland Jrnl. 28 July in Tour N. Parts Great Brit. (1813) 46 The late proprietor being, during the last ten years of his life, a martyr to the gout and palsy, had constructed a number of Merlin's chairs and other easy seats. 1835 E. Smedley Let. 4 May in Poems (1837) 429 A Merlin..chair with many appendages and fashions of transformation. 1876 Ld. Albemarle Fifty Years of my Life I. 242 He [sc. C. J. Fox] used to wheel himself about in what was called a ‘Merlin chair’. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 102/2 Self-propelling Merlin Chair. 1998 Hist. Today (Electronic ed.) Jan. His [sc. John Joseph Merlin's] place in English history is assured by his introduction of the Merlin Chair, of which a nineteenth-century example is in the Science Museum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1791
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