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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 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.
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 Stairs from wikipedia
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Stairs are a
structure designed to
bridge a
large vertical distance between lower and
higher levels by
dividing it into
smaller vertical distances. This...
- Look up
stairs, stairwell, or
upstairs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Stairs are a set of steps.
Stairs may also
refer to:
Stairs (surname), a list...
- The
Penrose stairs or
Penrose steps, also
dubbed the
impossible staircase, is an
impossible object created by
Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and
later independently...
- The Haʻikū
Stairs, also
known as the
Stairway to
Heaven or Haʻikū Ladder, is a steep,
steel step
structure that is
currently being dismantled and removed...
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Gemonian Stairs (Latin:
Scalae Gemoniae, Italian:
Scale Gemonie) were a
flight of
steps located in the
ancient city of Rome.
Nicknamed the
Stairs of Mourning...
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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)...
- The
Camondo Stairs (Turkish:
Kamondo ****ivenleri) are Art Nouveau-style
stairs in the
Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey. The
stairs,
completed in the...
- 9239°W / 40.8359; -73.9239 The West 167th
Street Step
Stairs,
colloquially known as the
Joker Stairs, are a step
street connecting Shakespeare and Anderson...
- The
Potemkin Stairs,
Potemkin Steps (Ukrainian: Потьо́мкінські схо́ди, romanized: Potiomkinski skhody, Russian: Потёмкинская лестница), or, officially...
- The
Scala Sancta (English: Holy
Stairs, Italian:
Scala Santa) are a set of 28
white marble steps located in an
edifice on
extraterritorial property of...
