stair : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stair	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stair
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stair n support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; "he paused on the bottom step" Synonym(s): step, stair
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stair \Stair\, n. [OE. steir, steyer, AS. st[?]ger, from [?]igan to ascend, rise. [root]164. See {Sty} to ascend.] 1. One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building. 2. A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only. [bd]I a winding stair found.[b8] --Chaucer's Dream. {Below stairs}, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are. {Flight of stairs}, the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story. {Pair of stairs}, a set or flight of stairs. -- pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See {Pair}, n., 1. {Run of stars} (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next. {Stair rod}, a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place. {Up stairs}. See {Upstairs} in the Vocabulary.