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fighting chair

n. a fixed chair from which a salt-water angler can fight a hooked fish

Usage examples of "fighting chair".

She shimmied into the access trunk of the Asp's turret, settled herself in the fighting chair, and placed her hands on the grips of the single multi-barreled autocannon which was the lightly armored vehicle's sole offensive weapon, then keyed her boom mike.

Reeling the bastards in, fighting off sharks with big gaffs, strapped into a soft white-Naugahyde fighting chair in the cockpit of a big power cruiser.

They had strapped him into the fighting chair at dawn, facing backwards into our wake and a thick fog of diesel fumes.

Fidel furiously reeled in the line and undid the harness to the fighting chair.

She had a small forward cabin, a tangle of rods and lines, redolent of fish and oil, and an open afterdeck with ten rod-holders and a single fighting chair homemade in oak, cushions extra.

The Englishman got up from beneath the awning and sedately took his place in the fighting chair.

It was just the perfect thing, the computer engineer told himself, sitting in the fighting chair and sipping a beer, to get a person over a divorce.

Norman, in swim trunks, lolled in a red leather fighting chair at the stern, taking in the scenery like a tourist.

The man sat in an adjacent deep sea fighting chair, a single strap across his waist.

Another picture showed the same distinguished friends on the deck of a fishing boat, this time with Erasmo strapped into the fighting chair.