stair wire
English
Alternative forms
- stair-wire
Noun
stair wire
- A thin stair rod; a wire used on stair carpet to keep it in place in the angle between two steps.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- Soon after seven o'clock we went down to dinner, carefully, by Mrs. Jellyby's advice, for the stair-carpets, besides being very deficient in stair-wires, were so torn as to be absolute traps.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4: