electric chair

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e=lec=tric chair

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun electric chair has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

electric chairn. 
     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.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

electric chair

Scourge

N scourge, rod, cane, stick, ratan, rattan, birch, birch rod, azote, blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok, rod in pickle, switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon, whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout, cat, cat o'nine tails, rope's end, pillory, stocks, whipping post, cucking stool, ducking stool, brank, trebuchet, trebuket, triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel, chinese water torture, treadmill, crank, galleys, scaffold, block, ax, guillotine, stake, cross, gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring, death chair, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, mecate, house of correction, goaler, jailer, executioner, electrocutioner, lyncher, hangman, headsman, Jack Ketch.


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