stee

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English stee, ste, sty, stie, sti, stegh, stiȝe (ladder), from Old Norse stegi, stigi (ladder, step, steep ascent), from Proto-Germanic *stigiz (an ascent, climb). Cognate with Old English stiġe (ascent or descent), German Stiege (staircase). See stair, sty, stile.

Noun

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stee (plural stees)

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A ladder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Middle English

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Noun

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stee

  1. Alternative form of stie (ladder)

Venetan

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Noun

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stee

  1. plural of stea