steeple : Idioms & Phrases

• . See Rood tower, under Rood.

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• (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack.

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• a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.

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• one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase.

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• a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead.

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• a church. Obs. Jer. Taylor.

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Stee"ple-crowned` adjective

Definitions

1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.
2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown.

   This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.

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