stepper

noun12

1. •
   A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.

   • I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them. — 1872
2. •
   A type of exercise machine.

   • I am working out on the stepper, but I feel like dancing instead. — 2016
3. •
   A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
4. •
   A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
5. •
   Anything that moves or advances in steps.

   • The Age field is a numeric stepper tool that allows you to scroll through a specific range of numbers. — 2013
6. •
   A dancer.

   • Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper." — 2009
7. •
   A dancer in a step show.

   • Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping. — 2001
8. •
   [in the plural] (informal) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
9. •
   (slang) A foot (appendage of the leg).
10. •
    (slang) The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws.
11. •
    A kind of driving rhythm or drumbeat in reggae music.
12. •
    (slang, no longer used) A prison treadmill.