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The Shinmeikai dictinary defines 椅子 as:

腰を掛け（てよりかか）るための家具

What does てよりかか mean there?
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orthography dictionary punctuation
What does てよりかか mean? Found in the Shinmeikai dictionary
腰を掛ける (here in て-form) means _to sit_ and 寄りかかる means _to lean on_.

A chair is a tool where you sit and rest your back against the back of the
chair.
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Nothing much to add to @永劫回帰's answer itself, just a follow-up about the
format:

> 腰を掛け（てよりかか）るための家具

It's almost like writing in English:

> a piece of furniture for sitt(ing and reclin)ing on

Of course you usually don't want to write such a Frankenstein sentence in
English, but Japanese has no spaces between words and can be broken anywhere,
so why not? As a result, we don't hesitate to insert fragments in parentheses
wherever both ends meet around them.

> 小さ（くて見づら）い字  
>  ブザーが聞こえ（なかっ）た時  
>  無（理のない）課金
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