adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb

1. 1
   Toward a chair. not-comparable

   "in the day of long skirts, a woman leaped chairward at the cry of “mouse!”"

Example

More examples

"in the day of long skirts, a woman leaped chairward at the cry of “mouse!”"

Etymology

From chair + -ward.

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