WordNet
stair-rod
n. a rod that holds a stair-carpet in the angle between two steps
Usage examples of "stair-rod".
The contents of servants' rooms, piles of excellent bed-linen, Turkey carpet -- worn but with many a year left in it -- stair carpets and gleaming brass stair-rods for those who can still persuade maidservants to polish them, sixty-eight yards of Brussels carpet from an upstairs corridor, long runs of magazines for decades out of publication, lowly po-boxes from the domestic quarters, a cheval-glass at which the ser.