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Capping Plane :: Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight..

Stairhead :: Staircase (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc..

#NAME? :: Stepstone (n.) A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

Step :: Step (v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position..

Downstairs :: Downstairs (a.) Below stairs; as, a downstairs room..

Cage :: Cage (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase..

Helical :: Helical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring..

Newel :: Newel (n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow..

Notchboard :: Notchboard (n.) The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.

Stepper :: Stepped (a.) Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key..

Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

Staith :: Stairway (n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

Balustrade :: Balustrade (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building..

Wellhole :: Wellhole (n.) The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.

Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].

Step :: Step (v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs..

Well :: Well (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole..

Degree :: Degree (n.) A step, stair, or staircase..

Understair :: Understair (a.) Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial..

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