Stair

Stair may refer to:

Places
  • Stair, Cumbria, England
  • Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland
People
  • Sir Stair Agnew, (1831–1916), a Scottish public servant
  • James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair (1619–1695), Scottish lawyer and politician
  • John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair (1648–1707), son of the previous
  • John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1673–1747), son of the previous
Technology
  • STAIR electrochemical battery, also known as the St. Andrews Air electrochemical battery
Other
  • Stairs, a flight of steps
  • The Stair Society, a learned society for the study of Scots Law, named for Viscount Stair

Famous quotes containing the word stair:

    “Being mocked by Guido for his lecherous life,
    Derided and deriding, driven out
    To climb that stair and eat that bitter bread,
    He found the unpersuadable justice, he found
    The most exalted lady loved by a man.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The catastrophe
    Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
    And never corrupted anybody.
    And one day he grew up, and the horizon
    Stammered politely. The sky was like muslin.
    And still in the old house no one ever answered the bell.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare
    This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestrail stair;
    That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)