FLYERS, in architecture, such stairs as go straight, and do not wind round, or have the steps made tapering; but the fore and back part of each stair and the ends respectively parallel to one another: So that if one flight do not carry you to your designed height, there is a broad half space; and then you fly again, with steps everywhere of the same breadth and length as before.
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