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单词 death chair
释义

death chair

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noun

electric chair.

Origin of death chair

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Words nearby death chair

death camp, death cap, death care, death cell, death certificate, death chair, death chamber, death cleaning, deathday, death-dealing, death duty
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Example sentences from the Web for death chair

  • That machine has about as much of the human element as a meat-chopper, as a steam- roller, as the death-chair at Sing Sing.

    Fighting in Flanders|E. Alexander Powell
  • When everything is in readiness the criminal is brought in and seats himself in the death-chair.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2|Various
  • Had he stayed where he was he could have shouted it out till they gagged him in the death-chair.

    The Wild Olive|Basil King
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