stepper

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.

A dancer.

Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper."

A Motion Picture Classic writer who witnessed the Reids at the Sunset Inn wrote, “Wally is some stepper. Let me tell you the boy can dance."

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.

Just as the early circular routines of fraternity and sorority steppers suggest the influence of patting juba, so too may they reflect another early African American dance form, the “ring shout.”

A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.

A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).