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noun

Stair n.

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

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."

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 stairs (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.

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Etymology of 'Stair'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stair" Quotes from Famous Books

... going through all his pockets, finally finding a piece of dirty yellow paper and talking from it as if most laboriously gathered and learned notes. But the paper was only for show. Father Burke saw him get out of the cab, he got on to the stair landing and then saw G.K.'s yellow paper on the ground. He had delivered his whole course with hardly a single note—occasionally looked through material for a quarter of an hour or so before speaking." All thought him a great entertainer as well as an ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... were established with their telephones at the foot of the stone stair outside the cellar door, and into this cramped 'exchange' ran the telephone wires from the companies in the trenches and from the Brigade Headquarters a mile or two back. Every word that the signallers spoke was ...

— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable

... struck the stair rail within a few inches of the baby's head. But the frightened girl hurried on, and in a few seconds was ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... meeting him on the stair, was so affected at his appearance, that she screamed aloud, and betook herself to flight; while he, cursing her with greet bitterness, rushed into the apartment to the doctor, who, instead of receiving him with cordial embraces, and congratulating him upon his deliverance, gave evident ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... lowest stair, and then another; it was evident we could not hold out much longer, but the knowledge had no effect on our courage. As Felix said, we could die but once. On the landing at the top of the stairs were two rooms, but our numbers were not strong enough to garrison them both. There ...

— For The Admiral • W.J. Marx

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