stair rod
a rod for holding a stair carpet in place against the bottom of a riser.
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How to use stair rod in a sentence
I declare that for a few seconds after I rattled the stair-rod you might have cut the silence with a knife.
At the foot of the stairs the horror, caught by something—a banister—a stair-rod—stopped.
The Magic World | Edith NesbitBut the stair-rod of the fifth step had worked loose: the carpet slipped, and he tumbled down with considerable uproar.
The Gay Adventure | Richard BirdOf course it must not be a screw-eye and a stair-rod; but anyone will understand, from this description, how to effect it.
The Pyrotechnist's Treasury | Thomas Kentish
British Dictionary definitions for stair rod
any of a series of rods placed in the angles between the steps of a carpeted staircase, used to hold the carpet in position
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