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Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
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Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
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Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
v. i.
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
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One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
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A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
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One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
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The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.
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A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
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A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
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A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
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The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
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One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings.
adv.
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
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A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
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A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
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A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
v. i.
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
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