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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.

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string +‎ board

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