"steeper" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"Thou may weel say a time like this,\" replied Ab, switchign the rain from his hat, \"for it's a steeper, and nought else. It's I've bin th' weetest back - end we'n had this ten year! down to th' market, an' just as I coom by th' Cross, owd Job Sutcliffe, th' barber, axed me to co' wi' a pair o' razzors he's […]\"",
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          "ref": "1898 May 7, Leeds Merc. Suppl., quoted in the EDD",
          "text": "It's a steeper, nah, is this, an' reight an' all."
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