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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steeple
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a church spire/steeple (=a church tower with a pointed top)
▪ The tall church spires could be seen from far away.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
church
▪ I can see the church steeple, the church I married in, full of hope.
▪ The distant unsighted object is a church steeple.
▪ But as it rushed up the side of the church steeple Carol had a fright.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Finch smiles easily as she banks the plane and finds a steeple that has become her aerial signpost.
▪ Four soaring steeples are honeycombed with cavities, revealing them to be the bony skeleton of support they are.
▪ He's rigged up speakers in the steeple To fool dim-witted country people.
▪ Huge umbrellas of black vitrodur atop turrets ... umbrellas that could, and indeed were closing up into cones and steeples.
▪ I can see the church steeple, the church I married in, full of hope.
▪ The steeples in the city rose in the distance.
▪ The clouds moved behind the white steeple.
▪ The distant unsighted object is a church steeple.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steeple

Steeple \Stee"ple\ (st[=e]"p'l), n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[=e]pel, st[=y]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) 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.''
--Shak.

Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood.

Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub ( Spir[ae]a 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. [Obs.]
--Jer. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
steeple

Old English stepel (Mercian), stiepel (West Saxon) "high tower," related to steap "high, lofty," from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (see steep (adj.)). Also the name of a lofty style of women's head-dress from the 14th century. Steeple-house (1640s) was the old Quaker way of referring to "a church edifice," to avoid in that sense using church, which had with them a more restricted meaning.

Wiktionary
steeple

n. 1 A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire. 2 A spire. vb. (context transitive English) To form something into the shape of a steeple.

WordNet
steeple

n. a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top [syn: spire]

Wikipedia
Steeple

A steeple, in architecture, is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religious structure. They may be stand-alone structures, or incorporated into the entrance or center of the building.

Steeple (Lake District)

Steeple is a fell in the English Lake District. It is situated in the mountainous area between Ennerdale and Wasdale and reaches a height of 819 metres (2687 feet). Steeple is really part of Scoat Fell, being just the rocky northern projection of that fell. However, because of its prominent peak and steep crags it has earned the reputation of being a separate fell. The Lake District writer Alfred Wainwright rated Steeple and its name very highly saying, “Seen on a map, it commands the eye and quickens the pulse, seen in reality it does the same“.

Steeple (disambiguation)

A steeple is a tall tower on a building, often topped by a spire.

Steeples is a surname of English origin. People with that surname include:

  • Albert Steeples (18701945), English cricketer
  • Dick Steeples, (18731946), English cricketer
  • Eddie Steeples (born 1973), American actor
  • Robert Steeples (born 1989), American football player and coach

Steeple may also refer to:

Types of steeple
  • Comtois steeple, a church bell tower with Imperial dome, typical of Franche-Comté, France
  • Crown steeple, a form of church steeple in which curved stone flying buttresses form the open shape of a rounded crown
  • Trinitarian steeple, a 3-point steeple typical of the province of Soule of Basque Country in France
Placenames consisting of "Steeple"
  • Steeple, County Antrim, a townland in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
  • Steeple, Dorset, a hamlet in south Dorset, England
  • Steeple, Essex, a very small village in south Essex, England
  • Steeple (Lake District), a fell in the Lake District, England
  • The Steeple, a rocky ridge forming the northwest arm of Mount Carroll, Antarctica
  • The Steeple (Lochgoilhead), a small mountain near the village of Lochgoilhead, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland
Placenames containing "Steeple"
  • Ainderby Steeple, a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England
  • Falkirk Steeple, a landmark which dominates the skyline of Falkirk, central Scotland
  • Gwern-y-Steeple, a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
  • Steeple Ashton, a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England
  • Steeple Aston, a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England
  • Steeple Barton, a civil parish and scattered settlement on the River Dorn in West Oxfordshire, England
  • Steeple Bumpstead, a village and civil parish near Haverhill, in Braintree district, Essex
  • Steeple Church, the western part of the historic "City Churches" building in Dundee, Scotland
  • Steeple Claydon, a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England
  • Steeple Gidding, a hamlet near the village of Hamerton, Cambridgeshire, England
    • St Andrew's Church, Steeple Gidding, a redundant but preserved Anglican church
  • Steeple Jason Island, a small island in the Falkland Islands
  • Steeple Langford, a village and civil parish on the River Wylye in Wiltshire, England
    • Steeple Langford Down, a Site of Special Scientific Interest
  • Steeple Morden, a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England
    • RAF Steeple Morden, a former Royal Air Force station
  • Steeple Peaks, a group of five summits in Antarctica
  • Steeple Point, a low ice-covered point on the west coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica
  • Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall, England
  • Steeple Rock, the largest rock of Barrett Reef by the entrance to Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
  • Steeple View, an area of Basildon, Essex, England
  • Sturton le Steeple, a village in Nottinghamshire, England
    • St Peter and St Paul's Church, Sturton-le-Steeple, a Grade II* listed Anglican parish church
Other uses
  • STEEPLE, an extended form of PEST analysis (business environment analysis)
  • Steeple compound engine, a form of tandem compound steam engine whose name derives from its great height
  • Steeple Grange Light Railway, a heritage railway at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England
  • Steeple sign, a radiologic sign found on a frontal neck radiograph, often diagnostic of croup

Usage examples of "steeple".

They then descended the Steeple until they reached the bartizan beneath which the lindworm slumbered.

Monmouth held a last council of war upon the square tower out of which springs the steeple of Bridgewater parish church, whence a good view can be obtained of all the country round.

German student already has his mansard roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study of the ancient Gothic tongues.

Nowhere did he see a cross or crucifix, but at the far end of the narthex, beneath a stairway that probably led to the sanctuary balcony, a smaller replica of the same star that adorned the steeple shone with a dim light the color of a hazy Autumn moon.

On every side are seen venerable trees overtowering its not unpretentious steeple.

The rehearsals and the skull practices paid off, as each squad went for its predesignated palm tree, church steeple, or bridge.

The psychopomp who had visited North Steeple in his courses, these long years, was a follower of the Cult of the Nameless--an ill-defined deity, the prayers to which were so general as to serve in virtually all circumstances.

The North Steeple would be left in silence for a season or two, at least until the concentration of revenants, eidolons, and ghosts of the dead ensnared by the architecture grew too dense again, and then North would soldier through in bitter silence until the psychopomp again appeared.

Winter Solstice, some weeks since the psychopomp last made his way to the North Steeple on his annual rounds.

At the end of its four-mile reins, coddled by the rockmilk engine, held tight by hooks like recurved steeples, the avanc progressed steadily and curiously through what was, to it, an alien sea.

The High Septon made a steeple of his hands and raised his eyes to heaven.

Suydam was a lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family, possessed originally of barely independent means, and inhabiting the spacious but ill-preserved mansion which his grandfather had built in Flatbush when that village was little more than a pleasant group of colonial cottages surrounding the steepled and ivy-clad Reformed Church with its iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones.

I climbed gentle hills from whose summits I could see entrancing panoramas of loveliness, with steepled towns nestling in verdant valleys, and with the golden domes of gigantic cities glittering on the infinitely distant horizon.

Arnold steepled his fingers, more a thoughtful gesture, I judged, than a prayerful one.

I do itv He dropped his hand from his head and steepled his fingers between his knees.