STEP
ADJECTIVES
1685 ► LAMPING taking long steps; striding → Sc.
NOUNS
..825 ► GANGS steps, goings, journeyings → obs.
1684 ► GREES stairs, steps; a staircase, a flight of stairs → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1705 ► SCALE a flight of steps → Sc. obs.
1755 ► PAIR OF STEPS a flight of steps; also, a portable set of steps used in a library, etc.
1838 ► DESS a step; a small landing-place → Sc.
1880 ► WALLACH → WALLOCH a noisy step, thump, or fall → Sc.
1889 ► WALKS steps → Eng. dial.
1894 ► LAMP a long, heavy step → Sc.
1895 ► JACOB’S LADDER a high and steep flight of steps
VERBS
1808 ► LAMP to take long, springing or prancing steps; to stride → Sc.
1822 ► LAY ONE’S HAIRS IN THE WATER to take steps → Sc.
1893 ► LAMPER to take long steps; to stride → Eng. dial.
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