Search Result for "electric chair":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

electric chair \e*lec"tric chair`\, n. a device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution. Syn: the chair, death chair, hot seat. [PJC] electric charge
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

electric chair 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "electric chair": 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