STEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steeper mean? 

• STEEPER (noun)
  The noun STEEPER has 1 sense:

1. a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping

  Familiarity information: STEEPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("steeper" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Derivation:

steep (let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse)

 Context examples 

The RSL are almost all restricted to slopes steeper than 27 degrees.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

Presently this incline became even steeper, and we found ourselves climbing upon hands and knees among loose rubble which slid from beneath us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was felt to be a considerable amendment; and though they all met at the Great House at rather an early breakfast hour, and set off very punctually, it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove's coach containing the four ladies, and Charles's curricle, in which he drove Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and entering upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was very evident they would not have more than time for looking about them, before the light and warmth of the day were gone.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The Cassini observations reveal that the channels — in particular, a network of them named Vid Flumina — are narrow canyons, generally less than half a mile (a bit less than a kilometer) wide, with slopes steeper than 40 degrees.

(Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan, NASA)

The considerable slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradually acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood;—and at the bottom of this bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and handsome curve around it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The first half was perfectly easy, but from there upwards it became continually steeper until, for the last fifty feet, we were literally clinging with our fingers and toes to tiny ledges and crevices in the rock.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)