stair

Converse of object

• descend: A newly wed couple emerges, descends some stairs.
• climb: They climbed the stairs which laid to a landing with four doors.
• ascend: Visitors now ascend the stairs to the first floor of the palace.
• tread: Open tread stairs lead up to a large main bedroom and additional TV room.

Preposition: with

handrail: Flights of stairs with handrails lead to the upper floors, alternatively a lift is situated by the entrance via the automatic doors.

Adjective modifier

• +1: The main entrance is +3, +1 stairs through a set of very heavy double doors to the Porters ' Lodge.
• +3: The main entrance is +3, +1 stairs through a set of very heavy double doors to the Porters ' Lodge.
• +2: The main entrance off High Street is through tall and heavy wooden doors ( +4, +2 stairs, no handrails ).
• rickety: Eventually we were led up some rickety stairs to a portakabin aloft the studio proper.
• +4: The main entrance off High Street is through tall and heavy wooden doors ( +4, +2 stairs, no handrails ).
• steep: Teeth brushed, Shoes on, Down steep bus stairs.

Modifies a noun

• turret: Entrance to stair turret set in thickness of west wall.
• cupboard: White wood grain door to the under stair storage cupboard.
• lift: We also have a stair lift to bedrooms on the first floors.

Noun used with modifier

• rood: The rood loft stairs curve sweetly behind the stepped pulpit.
• turnpike: Of these turnpike stairs there were, in the recollection of the author, some in High Street and Church Street.
• spiral: He led them down a spiral stair to an area of branching passage ways where a young, slender elf was waiting.
• roodloft: Hakewill's work awaits, but the surviving roodloft stair in the window is nice.
• newel: North wall: halfway up the second stage is small slit window to light newel stair in northeast angle of tower.
• winder: The abutting winder stair is, therefore, also likely to have been an insertion.