stoop

kumara

kulkea köyryssä

kuisti

painua

syöksyä puhekieltä The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) http://books.google.com/books?id=U2wJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA110& page 110

Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.

...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.

Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers car keys until they agreed to the purchase?''

Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

to stoop a cask of liquor

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, (..) / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.

These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.

She stoops to conquer.

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

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The old man walked with a stoop.

Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.

At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.