Crossword clues for recliner
recliner
- Channel surfer's locale, maybe
- Channel surfer's position, maybe
- It may set you back a bit
- Concerned with large ship round cape that goes flat out
- Comfy seat on front of cruise ship
- Easy chair
- Sun lounger on front of cruise ship
- Type of easy chair
- Type of armchair
- Place to sit
- Couch potato's place
- Ottoman neighbor?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recliner \Re*clin"er\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"[~e]r), n.
One who, or that which, reclines.
Specifically: An armchair with a back that can be adjusted to lean backward, and a footrest that can be moved up to support the legs, or folded under the chair when the person is sitting up; the back and footrest are often geared so that they move together, allowing the chair to be conveniently adjusted either for sitting up or for lying back; also called a reclining chair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, agent noun from recline. From 1880 as a type of chair.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, reclines. 2 A chair hinged so that the back can be reclined for comfort.
WordNet
n. an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it [syn: reclining chair, lounger]
Wikipedia
A recliner is an armchair or sofa that reclines when the occupant lowers the chair's back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can be tilted back, and often a footrest that may be extended by means of a lever on the side of the chair, or may extend automatically when the back is reclined.
A recliner is also known as a reclining chair, lounger and an armchair.
Modern recliners often feature an adjustable headrest, lumbar support and an independent footstool that adjusts with the weight and angle of the user's legs to maximize comfort. Additional features include heat, massage and vibration. Some models are wheelchair accessible.
Recliners can also accommodate a near supine position for sleeping, and are common in airplanes and trains, as well as in homes.
A raiser armchair includes a standing-up system, for elderly and people with limited mobility.
Usage examples of "recliner".
Arlai putting a beam of green light on a recliner built for a Cassrian.
They were sitting drinking coffee in the lounge of his apartment, she on a couch by the picture window, he sprawled in the leather recliner by the fireplace.
Alongside his recliner was the cluttered surface that served as a desk, elbow-distance bookshelf, breakfast bar, and workbench for a partly dismantled device of peculiar design and fabrication, which he had informed her was from the innards of a Ganymean gravitic communications modulator.
He sat down in the recliner and leaned back with his fingers interlaced behind his head.
Hunt said, getting up from the recliner and coming across to answer it.
Gina moved forward and touched the material of the recliner curiously.
The she lowered herself into the recliner, settled her feet on the rest, and let herself sink back.
Gina found herself becoming acutely conscious of the pressure of the recliner against her body, the touch of her clothes, and even the feeling of air flowing through her nostrils as she breathed.
And instantaneously she was back in the recliner, at ease and comfortable, as if she had never gotten up from it.
Hunt was in repose in the recliner there, motionless with his eyes closed.
Shilohin, who was sitting near the foot of the recliner, stared at the wall in distant silence, then at last turned to look back at the two Terran scientists.
Another screen activated to show the figure of a woman reposing in a Thurien-style neurocoupling recliner situated in a small booth.
Two brief caresses of her own fingertips and she was falling apart in the recliner, biting her lips against the mewling cries of her peak.
He touched the large recliner that some helpful person had positioned in front of the opening.
He stretched out in the recliner, comforted by its softness, by its hollows that, over the years, had migrated into a perfect mold of his backside.