stair wire

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Noun

stair wire

  1. 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.
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