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steeple

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Steeple  \Stee"ple\,  n.  [OE.  stepel,  AS  st[=e]pel,  st?pel;  akin 
  to  E.  steep,  a.]  (Arch.) 
  A  spire;  also  the  tower  and  spire  taken  together;  the  whole 
  of  a  structure  if  the  roof  is  of  spire  form  See  {Spire}.  ``A 
  weathercock  on  a  steeple.''  --Shak. 
 
  {Rood  steeple}.  See  {Rood  tower},  under  {Rood}. 
 
  {Steeple  bush}  (Bot.),  a  low  shrub  ({Spir[ae]a  tomentosa}) 
  having  dense  panicles  of  minute  rose-colored  flowers; 
  hardhack. 
 
  {Steeple  chase},  a  race  across  country  between  a  number  of 
  horsemen,  to  see  which  can  first  reach  some  distant 
  object,  as  a  church  steeple;  hence  a  race  over  a 
  prescribed  course  obstructed  by  such  obstacles  as  one 
  meets  in  riding  across  country,  as  hedges,  walls,  etc 
 
  {Steeple  chaser},  one  who  rides  in  a  steeple  chase;  also  a 
  horse  trained  to  run  in  a  steeple  chase. 
 
  {Steeple  engine},  a  vertical  back-acting  steam  engine  having 
  the  cylinder  beneath  the  crosshead. 
 
  {Steeple  house},  a  church.  [Obs.]  --Jer.  Taylor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  steeple 
  n  :  a  tall  tower  that  forms  the  superstructure  of  a  building 
  (usually  a  church  or  temple)  and  that  tapers  to  a  point 
  at  the  top  [syn:  {spire}]




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