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Stairs
- noun - a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; "he paused on the bottom step"
Staith
- - A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
Steins
- noun - a mug intended for serving beer
- experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946)
Striae
- noun - a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"
- any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue
Strick
- - A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Strict
- adjective - (of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules"
- characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
- incapable of compromise or flexibility
- rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
- severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
Stride
- noun - a step in walking or running
- cover or traverse by taking long steps; "She strode several miles towards the woods"
- significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides"); "they made big strides in productivity"
- Style of piano playing derived from ragtime.
- the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
- walk with long steps; "He strode confidently across the hall"
Strife
- noun - bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
- lack of agreement or harmony
- Trouble
Strike
- noun - (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders; "this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"
- a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
- a gentle blow
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled"
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
- an attack that is intended to seize or in