stepped line

1. 1.

   a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right

   Synonymsdroplinedrop linestagger headstaggered headstephead

   Broaderheadline

Questions about stepped line

What does stepped line mean?

stepped line means "a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right".

What is another word for stepped line?

Close synonyms include dropline, drop line, stagger head, staggered head, stephead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stepped line a common word?

stepped line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.