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Stepper   /stˈɛpər/   Listen
Stepper

noun
1.
A professional dancer.  Synonym: hoofer.
2.
A motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps.  Synonym: stepping motor.
3.
A horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting.  Synonym: high stepper.






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"Stepper" Quotes from Famous Books



... as if the heavens were tumbling on the world, and the lichtnin sent the trees daudin on the roads, and folk hid below their beds and prayed—they thocht it was the Judgment! But Gourlay rammed his black stepper in the shafts, and drave like the devil o' hell to Skeighan Drone, where there was a young doctor. The lad was feared to come, but Gourlay swore by God that he should, and he garred him. In a' the countryside driving like his that day was never kenned or heard tell o'; they were back within ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

... "All right, Stepper," said the child, relievedly. "You explain it to her." She went contentedly away and a moment later they heard her robust young voice lifted on the lawn ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... but continued his painful, upward way. He was a light stepper, as his shallow footprints betokened; but I saw with grim delight that each step of mine overlapped his measure ...
— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman



Words linked to "Stepper" :   motor, terpsichorean, hoofer, professional dancer, horse, Equus caballus, dancer, stepping motor



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