chair seater

English

Alternative forms

chair-seater, chairseater

Etymology

From chair seat +‎ -er.

Noun

chair seater (plural chair seaters)

(historical) Someone whose job it is to make seats for chairs.
- 1976, Pamela Horn, Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN, page 107:
  Among the women, five were employed as 'chair seaters', although for them lacemaking was the prime occupation.

See also

chair matter

References

“chair seater, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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