Steeple
Steeple (stē"p'l) , noun
[Old English stepel, Anglo-Saxon stēpel, stȳpel; akin to English steep, a.]
(Architecture) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
A weathercock on a steeple.
Collocations (6)
Rood steeple , See Rood tower, under Rood.
Steeple bush (Botany) , 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. [Obsolete] — Jer. Taylor