Bath chair

a wheeled and hooded chair, used especially by invalids.

any wheelchair.

Origin of Bath chair

First recorded in 1815–25

She had been seen once or twice in St. Goram in a bath-chair, drawn by a donkey.

The Squire's Daughter |Silas K(itto) Hocking
Sheila was in a bath-chair, but looked radiantly well, and at once gave me a list of her latest victims.

Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 |Various
Lady Rachel lies down more than ever; when she goes out it is in a Bath-chair.

Johnny Ludlow, Second Series |Mrs. Henry Wood
I got downstairs, next, out of doors in a Bath-chair, and now I can walk two hundred yards.

The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies |Walter Besant

The bath-chair turned out to be rather more dilapidated and disreputable than Frank expected.

Priscilla's Spies |George A. Birmingham

Bath chair

a wheelchair for invalids, often with a hood