0 a pointed structure on the top of a church tower, or the tower and the pointed structure considered as one unit: --
a church steeple
1 a tall, narrow structure, esp. on a church, having a pointed top --
I am afraid that the lives of many poor women after that age is an obstetrical steeple-chase.
Why should we be confined to six three-mile steeple chases?
In addition, if a church is holding a one-off fund-raising event—for example, to repair the church steeple—the event will be covered by a tax exemption.
Scaffolding and steeple-jacking are good examples of that.
It is worth over £20,000 and is by far the richest prize in the whole of steeple-chasing.
It is liquid fuelled and takes hours to get off the ground, and sticks up above the midland plain like a church steeple.
Is every church steeple to be regarded as an obstruction?
It is, in fact, the summit of the steeplechasing events of the steeple-chasing season.
