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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair" [syn: electric chair, chair, death chair, hot seat]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1889 1. a chair used in legal electrocution 2. the penalty of death by electrocution

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(electric chairs) The electric chair is a method of killing criminals, used especially in the United States, in which a person is strapped to a special chair and killed by a powerful electric current. N-COUNT: usu the N in sing

Moby Thesaurus

ax, block, cross, death chair, death chamber, drop, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gibbet, guillotine, halter, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, lethal chamber, maiden, noose, rope, scaffold, stake, the chair, tree