Steeple /(stē"p'l)/
Stee·ple
Steeple
n.
- A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. (Arch.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Rood steeple
- See Rood tower, under Rood.
- Steeple bush
- a low shrub (Spiraea tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack.
- Steeple chase
- a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.
- Steeple chaser
- one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase.
- Steeple engine
- a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead.
- Steeple house
- a church.