deckchair

/ ˈdɛkˌtʃɛə /

noun

a folding chair for use out of doors, consisting of a wooden frame suspending a length of canvas
rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic humorous.
engaged in futile or ineffectual actions

He can be sat in a deckchair for hours then scrambled immediately.

Upon the balcony he saw a long outline, the outline of a deckchair with a figure stretched out in it.

He walked aft and, placing himself in a deckchair, gazed listlessly at the stolid figure of the helmsman.

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