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plural wheelchairs
A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person. quotations examples
"And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."
2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9
(attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people. examples
(by extension) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion. quotations examples
To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.
2020 March 1, Gabe Bergado, “Watch this tortoise zip around town in a giant wheelchair”, in The Daily Dot