Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A board that runs along the side of a staircase to support or cover the ends of the steps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In carpentry, a board that supports any important part of a framework or structure; especially, a board which sustains the ends of the steps in a wooden staircase. Also called
string-piece or stringer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
stringpiece .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
stringpiece .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
string + board
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Examples
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Shifting granite boulders, they discovered first the top of the piano, then the entire frame complete with stringboard and pedals.
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