BARBER'S CHAIR

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	A high slab-like splint, resembling a chair-back, left standing on a stump above the undercut as a result of the faulty felling, or heavy lean, of the tree. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	BARBER'S CHAIR. She is as common as a barber's chair, in which a whole parish sit to be trimmed; said of a prostitute. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: BARBER'S CHAIR

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"Next" -- Barber shop scene on board Brooklyn in 1898. Note that this shop uses a portable barber's chair, set up in Brooklyn's windlass room. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Modern Translation: BARBER'S CHAIR

Language		Translations for "BARBER'S CHAIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		flaek (barber chair, split, tombstone). (various references)

Dutch		baard (beard, bit). (various references)

Finnish		tyvirepeämä (barber chair, beard, sloven, tombstone). (various references)

French		barbe (barbel). (various references)

German		Waldhieb (barber chair, tombstone), Waldbart (barber chair, tombstone). (various references)

Greek		θύσανος (barber chair, cirrus, tassel, tombstone, tuft). (various references)

Hungarian		borbélyszék. (various references)

Italian		scosciatura alla ceppaia (barber chair, tombstone). (various references)

Pig Latin		arber'sbay airchay

Portuguese		falhas de abate (barber chair, tombstone), cadeira para salões de cabeleireiro. (various references)

Spanish		tacón en silla (barber chair, tombstone), sillón de peluquero. (various references)

Swedish		fällkam på stubben (barber chair, beard, sloven, tombstone). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BARBER'S CHAIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-a-b-b-c-e-h-i-r-r-r-s"
	-5 letters: abbacies, archaise, babiches, barbaric, barriers, brashier, carriers, charrier, crabbers, crabbier, cribbers, harriers, herbaria, scabbier, scarrier, shabbier.
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