Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rod or a strip of thin metal, sometimes folded and corrugated to give it stiffness, used to hold a stair-carpet in place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rod that holds a stair-carpet in the angle between two steps
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Examples
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The rain was tipping it down stair-rod style and here was the best bit, as we left we were each escorted to our cars by the porter holding an enormous umbrella, not a drop touched me.
The Endsleigh Salon 2006
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The rain was tipping it down stair-rod style and here was the best bit, as we left we were each escorted to our cars by the porter holding an enormous umbrella, not a drop touched me.
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The rain was tipping it down stair-rod style and here was the best bit, as we left we were each escorted to our cars by the porter holding an enormous umbrella, not a drop touched me.
The Endsleigh Salon 2006
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The old man raked the fire together with an old stair-rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again.
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The old man raked the fire together with an old stair-rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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I declare that for a few seconds after I rattled the stair-rod you might have cut the silence with a knife.
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Up I went with a glance at every step for the table which now hid the brute's form from me, and never a creak did I wake out of that staircase till I was almost at the first landing, when my toe caught a loose stair-rod, and rattled it in a way that stopped my heart for a moment, and then set it going in double-quick time.
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No one had ever known the pure pleasure it had given him when Raymond Green, his wife's novelist protege, had tripped over a loose stair-rod one morning and fallen an entire flight.
Piccadilly Jim 1928
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I declare that for a few seconds after I rattled the stair-rod you might have cut the silence with a knife.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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I went, with a glance at every step for the table which now hid the brute's form from me, and never a creak did I wake out of that staircase till I was almost at the first landing, when my toe caught a loose stair-rod, and rattled it in a way that stopped my heart for a moment, and then set it going in double-quick time.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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