Definition of "garden-chair" [garden-chair]

• A chair for garden use; particularly, a kind of bath-chair (on wheels) for the use of ladies and invalids. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Dr. Orkborne assented; and Sir Hugh, advancing to the group, made his proposition, adding: 'Eugenia and I will overtake you as soon as the garden-chair comes, which, I dare say, won't be long, Robert being so behind-hand already.'"
• "She assaulted my poor father in his garden-chair, whence he could not escape her."
• "“Who was Grandpapa?” he asked; and they told him how he used to be very old, and used to be wheeled about in a garden-chair, and they showed him the garden-chair one day rotting in the out-house in which it had lain since the old gentleman had been wheeled away yonder to the church, of which the spire was glittering over the park elms."