The Collaborative International Dictionary
Folding \Fold"ing\, n.
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The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
The lower foldings of the vest.
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(Agric.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.Folding chair, a chair which may be shut up compactly for carriage or stowage; a camp chair.
Folding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.
Wiktionary
n. A light portable chair that can be stored in a stack, row or on a specially designed cart. They are produced in a variety of styles, folding mechanisms and materials.
WordNet
n. a chair that can be folded flat for storage
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "folding chair".
At that moment, far to the west in a state whose name begins with I, Russell Eigenblick, the Lecturer, was on the point of rising from his folding chair to address another immense gathering.
Egwene dropped onto her folding chair with a groan, and of course the legs shifted and nearly deposited her on the carpet.
The tent, large enough for twenty soldiers to sleep in, was crowded to the walls with women, wives of nobles and officers, but his eyes quickly found his own wife, Deira, seated on a folding chair in the middle of the carpets that served for a floor, and the numbness faded.
He went with her anyway, into a small room near the back of the building, one of eight or ten on the second floor, each the size of a bedroom and empty of furniture except for a small stage and a folding chair or two.
Dawkins said as he turned the folding chair around and sat backward in it.
Fitch shook the folding chair, a rather thin job that might not meet his challenge.
Sister Gertrude was ill at ease in her civilian clothing and would have fallen over a folding chair if a waiter and I hadn't held her up.
An usher peeled a metal folding chair from a stack near the door and flipped it open for me.
He wished Appin Dungannon would throw a folding chair at Miles Perry.
She turned from the desk to face me, leaning forward on the metal folding chair and resting her elbows on her knees.
Zimmerman, who had been sitting on a folding chair, popped to rigid attention.
On scaffolding he sat on a folding chair, sketching the great work: the four androgynous races of humankind on the upper panels, gazing down on the River Rouge assembly line, where auto workers labored, their bodies harmonized with effort.