death chair

noun

1. electric chair.

Word History and Origins

Origin of death chair¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

That machine has about as much of the human element as a meat-chopper, as a steam- roller, as the death-chair at Sing Sing.

From Project Gutenberg

That is why there are so many "men of God" in our jails, and why so many have paid the supreme penalty in the death chair.

From Project Gutenberg

So Jones will spend his days in prison, though he will escape the death chair.

From Project Gutenberg

When everything is in readiness the criminal is brought in and seats himself in the death-chair.

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That messenger was without doubt some one over whom he holds the threat of the death chair.

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