rough string
Building and Joinery (now rare )
noun
(Usually in plural) either of the two inclined pieces of timber supporting the steps of a wooden staircase.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Peter Nicholson (1765–1844), architectural writer and mathematician.
- case bay
- casebearer
- case-bearing moth
- casebook
- case-bottle
- casebound
- case by case
- case conference
- case-control
- case-controlled
- cased glass
- case distinction
- case divinity
- case file
- case form
- case frame
- case furniture
- case goods
- case grammar
- case-harden
- case-hardened
- case history
- case house
- caseiform
- casein