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Back stairs
Back stairs Back" stairs`
Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the
front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
Backstair
Backstairs Back"stairs`, Backstair Back"stair`, a.
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding
access by the back stairs.
A backstairs influence. --Burke.
Female caprice and backstairs influence. --Trevelyan.
Backstairs
Backstairs Back"stairs`, Backstair Back"stair`, a.
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding
access by the back stairs.
A backstairs influence. --Burke.
Female caprice and backstairs influence. --Trevelyan.
Corkscrew stairsCorkscrew Cork"screw` (-skr[udd]`), n.
An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing
corks from bottles.
Corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel. Downstairs
Downstairs Down"stairs, adv.
Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a. Below stairs; as, a
downstairs room.
Salmon stair Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head
streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes,
and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in
the way of their progress. The common salmon has been
known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds;
more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five
pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and
grilse. Among the true salmons are:
Black salmon, or Lake salmon, the namaycush.
Dog salmon, a salmon of Western North America
(Oncorhynchus keta).
Humpbacked salmon, a Pacific-coast salmon (Oncorhynchus
gorbuscha).
King salmon, the quinnat.
Landlocked salmon, a variety of the common salmon (var.
Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence
of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the
sea. This last is called also dwarf salmon.
Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and
erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called
jack salmon; the spotted, or southern, squeteague;
the cabrilla, called kelp salmon; young pollock,
called sea salmon; and the California yellowtail.
2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the
salmon.
Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from
Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.
Salmon killer (Zo["o]l.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus
cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
Salmon ladder, Salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under
Fish.
Salmon peel, a young salmon.
Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb.
Salmon trout. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles
the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more
numerous scales.
(b) The American namaycush.
(c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black
spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel
head and other large trout of the Pacific coast. StaircaseStaircase Stair"case`, n.
A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing,
balusters, etc.
To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of
architecture. --Sir H.
Wotton.
Staircase shell. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any scalaria, or wentletrap.
(b) Any species of Solarium, or perspective shell. staircase shellWentletrap Wen"tle*trap`, n. [D. wenteltrap a winding
staircase; cf. G. wendeltreppe.] [Obs.]
Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine
shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa,
which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase
shell. See Scalaria. Staircase shellStaircase Stair"case`, n.
A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing,
balusters, etc.
To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of
architecture. --Sir H.
Wotton.
Staircase shell. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any scalaria, or wentletrap.
(b) Any species of Solarium, or perspective shell. Stairhead
Stairhead Stair"head`, n.
The head or top of a staircase.
Stairway
Stairway Stair"way`, n.
A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. ``A rude and narrow
stairway.' --Moore.
Trap stairsTrap Trap, n. [OE. trappe, AS. treppe; akin to OD. trappe,
OHG. trapo; probably fr. the root of E. tramp, as that which
is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which is trod upon: cf. F.
trappe, which perhaps influenced the English word.]
1. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a
spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap
for foxes.
She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a
trap. --Chaucer.
2. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which
one may be caught unawares.
Let their table be made a snare and a trap. --Rom.
xi. 9.
God and your majesty Protect mine innocence, or I
fall into The trap is laid for me! --Shak.
3. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in
the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one
end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air
by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing
into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot
at.
4. The game of trapball.
5. A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil
pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents
form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but
permits the flow of liquids.
6. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates
for want of an outlet.
7. A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
8. A kind of movable stepladder. --Knight.
Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor.
Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it
furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack. Understairs
Understairs Un"der*stairs`, n.
The basement or cellar.
Upstairs
Upstairs Up*stairs", adv.
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Upstairs
Upstairs Up"stairs`, a.
Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
Meaning of STAIR from wikipedia
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stair" has many synonyms:: 53 The
helical stair is also
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Winding Stair may
refer to: The
Winding Stair, a band from Belfast,
Northern Ireland The
Winding Stair, a 1923
novel by A. E. W.
Mason The
Winding Stair a 1925...
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Stair barricaded the
exits of the
store and
proceeded to
shoot and kill
three of his co-workers
before fatally shooting himself.
Randy Robert Stair (September...
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Ralph Gordon Stair (May 3, 1933 –
April 3, 2021), also
known as
Brother R. G.
Stair, or
simply as
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American minister and evangelist...
- A
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mechanical device for
lifting people,
typically those with disabilities, up and down stairs. For
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- up
stair or
stars in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
stair is part of a
flight of steps.
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Stair Hole is a
small cove
located just west of
Lulworth Cove in Dorset,
southern England. The
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StairMaster is an
American company specializing in the
design and
production of
fitness equipment. They sell
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- The
Ruffian On the
Stair is a play by
British playwright Joe
Orton which was
first broadcast on BBC
Radio in 1964, in a
production by John Tydeman. It...
