noun
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A single step in a staircase.
definition
A series of steps; a staircase.
Examples of stair in a Sentence
She tripped over a stair and landed hard.
From their platform a stair descended into the house, and the children and the Wizard explored it after lighting a lantern to show them the way.
She bent and wiped it on the cement stair, not at all certain it was enough to tip him off.
Adjoining the southern chamber is the inside stair conducting to the top of the broch; of this stair some twenty steps remain.
Am I eligible for an extension, shower, ramp, bath or stair lift in my home?
No wonder he was upset in the stair room.
Stair turret at southeast angle is lit by two slits in the same stage.
He was sitting there, in the dark, when he first heard a step on the stair.
Above this, approached by a stair, are the Lesche and the theatre, occupying respectively the north-east and northwest corner of the precinct.
His father, Sir James Dalrymple, Bart., of Hailes, in the county of Haddington, auditor-general of the exchequer of Scotland, was a grandson of James, first Viscount Stair; and his mother, Lady Christian Hamilton, was a daughter of Thomas, 6th earl of Haddington.
While Mary was at supper, on the 9th of March, Darnley, with Ruthven, George Douglas and others, entered the boudoir in Holyrood, by his private stair, while Morton and his accomplices, mainly Douglases, burst in by way of the great staircase.
Mar, Queensberry, Stair (of Glencoe) and Argyll (Red John of the Battles) were the leading statesmen of the Unionist party; being opposed by Hamilton, Atholl and Lockhart of Carnwath as Jacobites; by Fletcher of Saltoun as an independent patriot; by popular sentiment, by mob violence, and by many of the preachers, though not by the General Assembly.
The library of 1500 volumes which he bequeathed to the clergy of the diocese is housed in a building with an outside stair, standing near the cathedral, and the Bishop's Walk by the river also perpetuates his memory.
The neurae are arranged at the axis of the wing after the manner of a fan or spiral stair - the anterior one occupying a higher position than that farther back, and so of the others.
A chest in the corner to the left of one entering contained Korans, and at the Irak corner a space was cut off enclosing the stair that leads to the roof.
We must, therefore, ascend the stair, which is wide enough to admit four or five persons walking abreast.
Keep coats off the floor and stair banisters by adding a row of hooks instead.
Order a custom made to measure area rug, stair carpeting, simply complete their quote form and they will email you a price.
Stair Cleaning The hose and tube attachments on your upright cleaner enable you to clean up the stairs.
The main stair tower is clad with the rendered insulation system for its full height, and vertical wires will support an evergreen clematis.
Stanley now supplies 90% of stair climbers used for moving vending machines.
The semi-circular central stair rises to a spectacular decorated cupola.
The company - which is the UK's market leader in stair edgings and floor accessories - was bought out of Headlam plc.
The 3 bay rear elevation features central stair windows.
With vinyl or engineered wood flooring, you will need to add a stair nosing to finish off the steps.
Cots, stair gates, high chairs can be supplied on request.
The stair tower was removed, using gunpowder, in the late 1700s.
Anything goes, be imaginative, anything from the head plant you caught on film to the 200 stair handrail you tamed last season.
The new stair should have 2 meters headroom over the flight and any landings.
The main stair was grained, new stone floors laid and new joinery fitted throughout the building.
The Head Office building has access to all learning areas and a stair lift to the upper mezzanine.
Abby supported herself against the carved newel of the stair and wept.
The steps of the stairs are required to have nosings that contrast in brightness with the rest of the stair.
Extra work such as clearing the room, easing the doors, type of fixing accessories, door plates and stair nosings if required.
Continuing up the stair the friends found more orc remains in the corridor on the next floor.
Whilst she was engaged, BB and I had fun. we played peekaboo, chair climbing and stair climbing practice.
The entrance from the stair landing is of a heavy and sumptuous Jacobean style with thick tapering pilasters.
The stair case, which led to the rood loft, remains, and in the chancel is a beautiful piscina.
Climb the ancient turnpike stair to the Duke's Suite, including the incomparable 17th century plasterwork ceilings.
They opened the kitchen door, and Mother leaned over the stair railing.
A dome roof light can be inserted in the flat roof to give extra light to the stair well.
He led them down a spiral stair to an area of branching passage ways where a young, slender elf was waiting.
Hakewill's work awaits, but the surviving roodloft stair in the window is nice.
The abutting winder stair is, therefore, also likely to have been an insertion.
You already had your cereal and milk for breakfast 2. You have an exercise bike, treadmill or stair stepper at home.
The rucked carpet or carelessly placed rug, long toenails, no stair rail, poor footwear, poor lighting.
A stair turret breaks the symmetry on the south face.
Entrance to the tower was by a door in a corner stair turret.
You will receive a 5 year manufacturers warranty with stair lifts.
The other three sides are formed by a retaining wall, varying in height with the slope of the ground from 14 to 41 ft.; on the west side a magnificent double stair, of very easy steps, leads to the top. On this terrace are the ruins of a number of colossal buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain.