captain's chair

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   a wooden armchair with a saddle seat and a low back that has vertical spindles

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Questions about captain's chair

What does captain's chair mean?

captain's chair means "a wooden armchair with a saddle seat and a low back that has vertical spindles".

Is captain's chair a common word?

captain's chair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.