"waterstep" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "water",
        "3": "step"
      },
      "expansion": "water + step",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From water + step.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "watersteps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "waterstep (plural watersteps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Robin Hiscock, The Killer Wind, page 7:",
          "text": "They nodded at each other, he himself still walking past the door without pausing, already past in fact and straddling the waterstep out on to the stern of the ship, the cool off-shore wind in his face, before the slow-remembered image of the clock-face on the bulkhead behind Dutchie fixed itself in his mind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Felix R. Savage, Mercy:",
          "text": "Once, they'd opened onto a waterstep above one of the nameless little canals that cut through the Flats; now the canal came right into the room.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Pauline Gedge, The Oasis:",
          "text": "One had jumped onto a submerged waterstep and was tying up the skiff.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A step that goes down to a body of water."
      ],
      "id": "en-waterstep-en-noun-OUTlIO62",
      "links": [
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "down",
          "down"
        ],
        [
          "body of water",
          "body of water"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "waterstep"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "water",
        "3": "step"
      },
      "expansion": "water + step",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From water + step.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "watersteps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "waterstep (plural watersteps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Robin Hiscock, The Killer Wind, page 7:",
          "text": "They nodded at each other, he himself still walking past the door without pausing, already past in fact and straddling the waterstep out on to the stern of the ship, the cool off-shore wind in his face, before the slow-remembered image of the clock-face on the bulkhead behind Dutchie fixed itself in his mind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Felix R. Savage, Mercy:",
          "text": "Once, they'd opened onto a waterstep above one of the nameless little canals that cut through the Flats; now the canal came right into the room.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Pauline Gedge, The Oasis:",
          "text": "One had jumped onto a submerged waterstep and was tying up the skiff.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A step that goes down to a body of water."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "down",
          "down"
        ],
        [
          "body of water",
          "body of water"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "waterstep"
}