stair : Idioms & Phrases

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Back stairs

  • stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary.
Webster 1913

Below stairs

  • in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are.
Webster 1913

Cockle stairs

  • winding or spiral stairs.
Webster 1913

down the stairs

  • adverb on a floor below
    below; downstairs; on a lower floor.
    • the tenants live downstairs
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Flight of stairs

  • noun a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
    flight; flight of steps.
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  • the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story.
Webster 1913

Pair of stairs

  • a set or flight of stairs. pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair, n., 1.
Webster 1913

Run of stars

  • (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next.
Webster 1913

Salmon ladder, salmon stair

  • . See Fish ladder, under Fish.
Webster 1913

Stair rod

  • a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place.
Webster 1913

stair-carpet

  • noun a strip of carpet for laying on stairs
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stair-rod

  • noun a rod that holds a stair-carpet in the angle between two steps
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Trap stairs

  • a staircase leading to a trapdoor.
Webster 1913

Up stairs

  • . See Upstairs in the Vocabulary.
Webster 1913

up the stairs

  • adverb on a floor above
    on a higher floor; upstairs.
    • they lived upstairs
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