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Stepney definition

Step·ney (step′nē)

former metropolitan borough of E London, now part of Tower Hamlets

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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In India a "stepney" may be a spare tyre, which word goes back to an English tyre company, doing business there at one time.

Posted by anonymous 60 days ago.

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