Well attestedNamed from the place
Bath chair
noun · first attested 18th century
The wheelchair's ancestor is named for an English spa town's gouty visitors.
A hooded wheeled chair with a steering handle, used to push an invalid about.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 18th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Bath
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Bath chair
James Heath of Bath is credited with building the three-wheeled chair around 1750 to carry patients between their lodgings and the hot springs. It spread to every English resort and stayed in service into the 20th century, long after Bath stopped being the reason for it.
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