stepless

Updated: May 29, 2025

Irwin cut a grape vine, and making one end secure at the entrance, provided a hand rail, by the aid of which I was able to easily descend the stepless way and afterwards remount. The first chamber entered is the principal portion of the cave, and by actual measurement is forty-nine feet in length by forty-eight in greatest width and the height estimated at fifty feet.

Luella Agnes Owen - Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills

But the patient or orderly who has dwelt in a hospital where, though distances are shorter, staircases are involved or where every trifling coming-and-going of goods or stretchers necessitates the manipulation of a lift blesses those level, smooth corridors, with their facile access to any ward, to operating theatres, kitchens, stores, X-ray room, massage department, etc., and their stepless exit into the open air.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital