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Stepper   /stˈɛpər/   Listen
Stepper

noun
1.
A professional dancer.  Synonym: hoofer.
2.
A motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps.  Synonym: stepping motor.
3.
A horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting.  Synonym: high stepper.





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"Stepper" Quotes from Famous Books



... into that broad way wherein there is room for the utmost self which is in us all. Henceforth husband and wife would walk apart in a spiritual sense, unless there should come a revolution in the character of the wife, who was the stepper aside. ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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... to meet me; and what a splendid horse," said Gwynne Ellis. "Carries his head well, and a good stepper." ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine
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... to get up as he said, but it wasn't so easy for me on account of my not bein' such a high stepper as Jone, an' I was a good while a-gettin' a good ...
— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton
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... let him near his wife! Ye mind what an awful day it was; the thunder roared as if the heavens were tumbling on the world, and the lichtnin sent the trees daudin on the roads, and folk hid below their beds and prayed—they thocht it was the Judgment! But Gourlay rammed his black stepper in the shafts, and drave like the devil o' hell to Skeighan Drone, where there was a young doctor. The lad was feared to come, but Gourlay swore by God that he should, and he garred him. In a' the countryside driving like his that day was never kenned or heard tell o'; they were ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
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... ever see her?" the Disagreeable Walnut leaned her sharp elbows on the show case. "I see her when she was a bride—I'd just took charge here then—she was a high-stepper! The Major hadn't a penny when she married him but she had all the Montrose money and she got him—some say as she told him if he'd marry her she'd live on what he earned—but I guess he couldn't have earned the matter of her ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
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Words linked to "Stepper" :   dancer, professional dancer, motor, terpsichorean, stepping motor, hoofer, Equus caballus, horse


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