stair-wire

A form of stair wire — A thin stair rod; a wire used on stair carpet to keep it in place in the angle between two steps.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of stair wire.

    Soon after seven o'clock we went down to dinner, carefully, by Mrs. Jellyby's advice, for the stair-carpets, besides being very deficient in stair-wires, were so torn as to be absolute traps.

    1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
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