stair

[stair]

Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway

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One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

Noun
support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; "he paused on the bottom step"

n.
One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

n.
A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.

Stair

Stair , n. [OE. steir, steyer, AS. stger, from igan to ascend, rise. &root;164. See Sty to ascend.] 1. One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building. 2. A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only. "I a winding stair found." Chaucer's Dream. Below stairs, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are. -- Flight of stairs, the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story. -- Pair of stairs, a set or flight of stairs. -- pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair, n., 1. -- Run of stars (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next. -- Stair rod, a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place. -- Up stairs. See Upstairs in the Vocabulary.

One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

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Usage Examples

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Misspelled Form

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