Definitions
support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
Word origin
From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”).
Used in a sentence
“Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Single step between floors”5 letters
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