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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

electric chair

· e·lec·tric chair · IPA
01 n. a device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current…
  1. 1.
    a device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution.
Syn. the chair, death chair, hot seat.