steeper

IPA: stˈipɝ

A vessel, vat, or cistern in which things are steeped
The stem of a shrub or small tree in a hedgerow, often laid by being partially cut through at the base in the process of laying a hedge.

Examples of "steeper" in Sentences

The higher we got, the steeper was the track that crawled on a narrow edge.
The avalanche scale suggests that, when the danger is "moderate", caution should be used in steeper terrain.
The sharper the turn, the greater the effect of the centrifugal force, and therefore the steeper should be the "bank."
Pour over this boiling water until the steeper is a little more than half full; cover tightly and let it stand where it will keep hot, but not to boil.
For eight of the last 10 years, the decline in revenue from record sales has gotten steeper, which is to say the business is imploding with increasing vigor.
But the more the snow is accumulated the steeper are the slopes, and the greater the weight which presses upon the lower and older layers and tries to displace them.
While the Scythe Zipang isn't broken, its abysmal thermal performance combined with a Hulk-like rage inducing fitting procedure and a price tag steeper than Nvidia's stock decline make this one of the worst coolers we've looked at in recent memory.
From this we see that the slopes are directly proportional to the nearness of the contours -- that is, the nearer the contours on a map are to one another, the steeper is the slope, and the farther the contours on a map are from one another, the gentler is the slope.