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  • noun Attributive form of electric chair

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Examples

  • She needs only chairs, tambourines and a few other props to evoke a variety of locales and situations, including a chain gang and an electric-chair execution ....

    Michael Giltz: Theater Review: "The Scottsboro Boys" Triumphs Michael Giltz 2010

  • She needs only chairs, tambourines and a few other props to evoke a variety of locales and situations, including a chain gang and an electric-chair execution ....

    Michael Giltz: Theater Review: "The Scottsboro Boys" Triumphs Michael Giltz 2010

  • The owner, however, says he won't pay more than the $400 he paid for the animal, opening the possibility for what may be the world's first electric-chair BBQ ....

    Tuesday Breakfast Bender Emil Steiner 2008

  • The owner, however, says he won't pay more than the $400 he paid for the animal, opening the possibility for what may be the world's first electric-chair BBQ....

    Tuesday Breakfast Bender Emil Steiner 2008

  • He could not help extremest appreciation of her utter poise -- he never would be able to, he supposed -- but from now on it would be the somewhat shivery appreciation that anyone with sensitive nerves might give to the smooth mechanical efficiency of a perfectly-appointed electric-chair.

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

  • He broke off, with a wave of his hand toward the man who had just sentenced himself to death in the electric-chair.

    Within the Law 1913

  • Gluck's confession, before he went to the electric-chair, threw much light upon the series of mysterious events, many apparently unrelated, that so perturbed the world between the years 1933 and

    The Enemy of all the World 1908

  • I read an article about Fred Leuchter Jr., who is an electric-chair repairman and designer of capital-punishment equipment.

    NYT > Home Page By ABBY AGUIRRE 2011

  • He had a lot of electric-chair assignments up at Sing Sing prison.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • He had a lot of electric-chair assignments up at Sing Sing prison.

    NY Daily News 2011

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