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stepwork

stepwork noun: a construction in the form of steps.

Noun

stepwork (uncountable)

  1. A construction in the form of steps.
    • The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.1953, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings (volume 2, part 2, page 513)

Origin of stepwork

From step + work.

Questions about stepwork

What does stepwork mean?
Stepwork means a construction in the form of steps.
What part of speech is stepwork?
Stepwork is a noun.

Words near stepwork in the dictionary

  1. stepwells
  2. stepwife
  3. stepwise
  4. stepwisely
  5. stepwives
  6. stepwork
  7. steradian
  8. steradiancies
  9. steradiancy
  10. steradians
  11. sterane

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