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Stair-rod   /stɛr-rɑd/   Listen
Stair-rod

noun
1.
A rod that holds a stair-carpet in the angle between two steps.





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"Stair-rod" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 ...
— I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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