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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.
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 stairs
Corkscrew 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.
Trap stairs
Trap 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.

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- House of Stairs is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in November 1951. This print measures 47 cm × 24 cm (18+5⁄8 in × 9+3⁄8 in)...
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- The Camondo Stairs (Turkish: Kamondo ****ivenleri) are Art Nouveau-style stairs in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey. The stairs, completed in the...
- The West 167th Street Step Stairs, colloquially known as the Joker Stairs, are a step street connecting Shakespeare and Anderson avenues at West 167th...
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- "The Stairs" is a song by Australian rock band INXS that was released on its 1990 studio album X. A live performance of "The Stairs" from the band's July...