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stair-head, ˈstairhead
Also formerly rarely stairs-.
The level space at the top of a staircase or flight of stairs.
1534–5MS. Rawl. D. 777 lf. 72 The Stayer hede goyng to the Quen's Juell hous. 1569Inv. Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (Chetham Soc.) 36 In the chamber at the steare head. 1607Wotton in Life & Lett. (1907) I. 379 [The Doge of Venice] brought him afterwards down to the last stairhead of the place. 1634Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 32 Here is a dainty stair-case, there being two pair of stairs which come out of the hall, and land both at one stair-head, and lead into the best rooms. 1702Savery Miner's Friend 43 This Pipe..must be long enough to reach from the Landing-place or Stair-head. 1820Keats Cap & Bells lxx, He..scarce upright could reach The stair-head. 1849Cupples Green Hand xv. (1856) 152 She stood with one little foot on the stair-head behind me. 1894Hall Caine Manxman v. iv. 294 He..crept out on to the stairhead, and listened.
1551–60in H. Hall Soc. Eliz. Age (1886) 150 An olde cub⁓bord standing at the Stayers headd. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 126 The first hall of the pallace which is at the staires heade. 1655tr. Sorel's Com. Hist. Francion xii. 22 They took their ready way to the stairs head. 1748Richardson Clarissa VI. 258 She shot to the stairs-head to receive him.
attrib.1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 378/2, I pay him 2s. 9d. a week for a little stair-head place with a bed in it. 1910Q. Rev. Apr. 385 She was not a mere stairhead hostess. |