An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
A thick slice, especially of bread.
To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
A position in a hierarchy.
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
simple past tense of ring
Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.