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Definition of Stairhead
1. Noun. Platform at the top of a staircase.
Definition of Stairhead
1. n. The head or top of a staircase.
Definition of Stairhead
1. Noun. The landing at the top of a staircase ¹
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Definition of Stairhead
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stairhead
Literary usage of Stairhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of the City of Perugia, 1492-1503 by Francesco Maturanzio, Edward Strachan Morgan (1905)
"... the stairhead with a buckler in his hand and his sword drawn. There he stood
in his shirt, and with him was a companion, a man-at-arms, whom he loved ..."
2. Transactions by Mining Institute of Scotland (1889)
"In stooping out the Great seam over the top of the stairhead levels, they found
that the timber in these levels was frequently broken immediately in advance ..."
3. Practical Coal Mining: A Manual for Managers, Under-managers, Colliery by George L. Kerr (1905)
"130) are driven in the stairhead seam at intervals of 40 yds., ... The brake
incline and haulage roads are made in the stairhead seam as before, ..."
4. The Coal-fields of Scotland by Robert W. Dron (1902)
"The next coal-seam worked at Niddrie is the stairhead Coal, ... 1 6 The seams
between the stairhead and the Carlton are mostly of good quality, ..."
5. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the by Robert Wodrow (1836)
"Ayr, he meets William MI: i »li \v in stairhead, aged eighteen years or under,
and consequently could not be either at Pentland or ..."
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