Definitions

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  • noun A motorized platform installed in a stairway, which traverses the stairs when activated, for the benefit of those for whom the stairs are a barrier.

Etymologies

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stair +‎ lift

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Examples

  • As she grew less mobile, we had a stairlift installed and Mum always used to salute as it went up!

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • Have you heard about the express Stannah stairlift?

    [memory loss] ho hum 2009

  • Mounting is included with each single order, so you will receive at your home the selected stairlift and technicians will install it within few hours.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The manufacturer offers you the state of the art products like the Straight Stairlift (a perfect indoor solution that can applied on standard straight stairs), Curved Stairlift (for all these cases where stairs are divided in two or more parts), outdoor stairlift (the product is totally made with anti rust material like aluminum, or zinc plated metal).

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The offered portfolio permits you to mount a stairlift in all the different contests, indoor and outdoor.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Value StairLift can also provide you a solution for exceptionally narrow stairs (take a look at the perched stairlift) or for who want not only a sit stairlift (the standing stairlift permits people to use it in both configuration).

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Report comment lets not get hung up on crashing lol great show guys the poor grandma with the stairlift and curse u fith gear should of done it with the bugatti cant wait for the special benq said...

    The last one (almost) « Transmission – BBC Top Gear 2008

  • They are interrupted by Livia coming down from her bedroom on a stairlift.

    Sopranos episode guide #23: Bust-Out DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • They are interrupted by Livia coming down from her bedroom on a stairlift.

    Archive 2007-04-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • In my mind's eye, I saw myself as Charles Laughton riding his stairlift in _Witness for the Prosecution.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

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