Crossword clues for steeper
steeper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steeper \Steep"er\ (-[~e]r), n. A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
Steep \Steep\, a. [Compar. Steeper (-[~e]r); superl. Steepest.] [OE. steep, step, AS. ste['a]p; akin to Icel. steyp[eth]r steep, and st[=u]pa to stoop, Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt; cf. OFries. stap high. Cf. Stoop, v. i., Steep, v. t., Steeple.]
Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
Difficult of access; not easily reached; lofty; elevated; high. [Obs.]
--Chapman.Excessive; as, a steep price. [Slang]
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: steep) n. A vessel, vat, or cistern in which things are steeped.
WordNet
n. a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping
Usage examples of "steeper".
Think of people FARMING on a slant which is so steep that the best you can say of it--if you want to be fastidiously accurate--is, that it is a little steeper than a ladder and not quite so steep as a mansard roof.
South, beyond the grove, the incline grew steeper, a perfect place for orc spear-throwers and archers, except for the fact that just over the nearest ridge loomed a deep ravine with a nearly unclimbable wall.
The vast bowls of amoebic plasm become steeper and steeper as they reach for one another.
Dwomor Keep, three days they had spent climbing ever steeper slopes, both up and down, as they zigzagged back and forth and worked their way gradually northeastward into the mountains.
The trails were steeper now, and Romilly began to lag behind somewhat - on these paths and roads, a mountain-bred chervine was better than a horse, and there were places on the narrow mountain paths where Romilly, Orain and Dom Carlo had to dismount and lead their horses by the bridle while the men on the sure-footed stag-like riding-beasts stayed in their saddles, secure as ever.
The gully bottom was lined with heaps of loose, gravellike rock that had flaked off and fallen from the cliffs above, and the terrain got gradually steeper and steeper until the last thirty feet, which was straight up.
Leaving the Ystrad behind, the companions climbed slopes steeper and rockier than any they had traveled before.
Hunter and Xiao Li moved down a gently sloping section of road, around a bend, then down a steeper slope.
The trail plunged precipitously out of the mountains, seeming to Jaryd even steeper than the route he and Baden had taken into the great city from the west, before the Midsummer Gathering.
They went a few paces along a narrow corridor, down another, steeper flight of stairs, these set at a right angle to the corridor, then along a wider passage to a bivalve door of verdigris-covered bronze.
It was steeper than it had appeared from a distance, but climbable, and thankfully not too high.
Yet the steeper glide slope fooled him and he was fast all the way, flattened out at the ramp and boltered again.
The moths aggregated in glacial cirques on talus right below steeper headwalls.
Only the steeper hill slopes and crinkled watercourses inconvenienced the encroachment to any degree, although in the central districts even they had been tamed with metal and carbon concrete.
As the ascent to Flattop grew steeper and hotter and dustier, she picked up the pace and soon walked alone.