Crossword clues for wheelchair
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person. 2 (context attributive English) designed for wheelchairbound people
WordNet
n. a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant
Wikipedia
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels. The device comes in variations allowing either manual propulsion by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand, or electric propulsion by motors. There are often handles behind the seat to allow it to be pushed by another person.
Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability. People who have difficulty sitting and walking often make use of a wheelbench.
Usage examples of "wheelchair".
But as his health deteriorated, Smith was forced to fight another battle with the State Department for wheelchair access to SA-10, the building in Foggy Bottom where the DSS agents were based.
Instead, as soon as he had the wounded man in the wheelchair, he rolled him out of the drive, through the areaway, and around the house to the handicapped entrance at the far side.
The head of the procession had reached the centerpiece and Bishop Caines was mounting the steps, smiling down at the invalids spread out on blankets and in wheelchairs below.
The doxies were old and bored and tended to use their creds as down payments on powered wheelchairs.
Parchman, at fifty, was confined to a wheelchair, and Eunice gave up her job to look after her and run the house.
Three wheelchairs, their people mighty frail, two Wacs, both tough little princesses, one fused spine, three mental blanks who drooled, two bedridden, one goldbrick, two mobile but getting over operations, a bosun mate with one arm and an appliance instead of a hand, and a blind quartermaster .
Many people, male or female, would be embarrassed to be seen in a nice restaurant pushing the wheelchair of someone as klutzy as she was.
Then Frank Romero opened the door, and the wheelchair, and its occupant came into sight.
Saturday morning, they were astonished to find Miss Matheson waiting for them at the front of the classroom, sitting in her wood-and- wicker wheelchair, wrapped up in a thermogenic comforter.
Three elderly women were sitting on the front porch, one in a wheelchair, furtively smoking, like naughty adolescents in the washroom.
On the ramp were three men--normal British Airports Authority reception staff in fluorescent jackets, who were manning the air bridge helping a woman into a wheelchair.
She tapped a defiant foot against the tinkling marimba rhythms seeping into the waiting room somewhere over near the curtains, where the wheelchair had collided with a radiator and come to rest.
As I waited, I watched the people in wheelchairs, the junkies, the crack addicts, and the hookers go by.
Kinda like one of those guys you see in computer geek movies, the guy who runs his wheelchair within a circle of computers and telephones and all other kinds of gadgets.
On cue from the water, Mother emerges, snorkeling in his wheelchair contraption -- with Brenda.