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handrail a rail alongside a stairway, etc., at a convenient height to be grasped to provide support handrail [′hand‚rāl] (engineering) A narrow rail to be grasped by a person for support. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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However, he did not let her fall, but took advantage of the support of the handrail to imprint a kiss upon her lips--lips in the daytime scorned. Looking out accordingly, and stretching her neck over the handrail, she descried, to her great amazement, Mr Tappertit completely dressed, stealing downstairs, one step at a time, with his shoes in one hand and a lamp in the other. First peeping over the handrail and allowing the head-dress to disappear in the darkness below, he groped his way down, and arrived at the door of a back kitchen immediately after Miss Brass had entered the same, bearing in her hand a cold leg of mutton. |
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