C2. Combinations with an adverb, as step-back, step-down, step-up = an act of stepping backwards, etc.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess.iii. xiii. 658 I begin to perceive a dimnes and weaknes in reading... Loe—heere a steppe-backe, and that very sensible.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalryi. i. 18 The ‘Step Back’ is performed in the slow time and length of pace, from the halt.