, in Architecture, such stairs as go straight, and do not wind round, nor have the steps made taper- ing, but equally broad at both ends. Hence, if one flight do not rise to the top of the story &c, there is a broad half pace, and then commonly another set of flyers.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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