WordNet
n. rocking chair on a stationary base
Usage examples of "platform rocker".
Worse still, in his opinion, was the bedroom furniture: chests and tables with cold marble tops, a platform rocker too dainty in scale, and an enormous headboard of dark wood, intricately designed and reaching almost to the ceiling.
He had laid his clothes awkwardly on the back of the platform rocker, where they rose in a layered mountain that seemed huge and overwhelming in the half-dark.
She sat in an upholstered platform rocker with her slippered feet on a small petit point hassock.
There was a huge carved cherry sideboard with a marble top, a black horsehair sofa, an intricate ivory screen, jade figures, a platform rocker, two cinnabar lamps, Persian rugs, a pier-glass mirror in a dark mahogany frame, a piano with a fringed shawl across the top, lace curtains, wall hangings of embroidered silk.
Upon rising from a platform rocker you are likely to be kicked and severely hurt by the chair, which leaps from the ground in anger.
I have seen frail and elderly people thrown down and trampled on by a platform rocker with strong springs.
Highspight, seating herself in a platform rocker and picking up a wild-looking apricot cat to hold on her lap.