wheelchair

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.

   "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."

2. 2
   noun

   Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion.

   To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.

3. 3
   verb

   to move using a wheelchair

   Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.

4. 4
   noun

   a movable chair mounted on large wheels

5. 5
   noun

   Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.

Etymology

From wheel + chair.