Stairs vs Legger - What's the difference?
stairs | legger |
(label) A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
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short for a bootlegger
(British, obsolete) A man employed by the owners of a canal to push boats through narrow canal tunnels. The legger would lie on his back on a piece of wood on the boat with his feet reaching to the tunnel wall, and walk it along. This could be done by the boat's crew, but the canals employed men specifically for the task because they could do it faster and prevent a tunnel becoming a bottleneck for traffic.
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
As nouns the difference between stairs and legger
is that stairs is a contiguous set of steps connecting two floors while legger is short for a bootlegger.stairs
English
Noun
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
Synonyms
* (contiguous set of steps ): stairway, staircaseAnagrams
* * English pluralslegger
English
Noun
(en noun)- "Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married." - "The Big Sleep", by Raymond Chandler
