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English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
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bannister
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Word definitions for bannister in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bannister \bannister\ n. same as banister .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both hands on the bannister , the scarf around her head. ▪ By clinging to a bannister he miraculously managed to land safely. ▪ He needed to support himself on the bannister . ▪ Hold on to the bannister rail and lower your heels ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bannister is a variant spelling of banister . However, it is a relatively common proper name as well.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The handrail on the side of a staircase. 2 One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster. n. 1 The handrail on the side of a staircase. 2 One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.
Usage examples of bannister.
Muravieff has performed in achieving a level of quality education for the inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility, and because he feels she has contributed substantially to the lowest rate of recidivism for a corrections facility in the state and one of the lowest rates in the nation, because Victoria Bannister Muravieff has set a standard for community service under the most difficult of conditions, with a selfless disregard for her own situation and a commitment to the rehabilitation of people the rest of us have given up on long ago, the governor has decided to commute her sentence to time served.
Yage, Ayuahuasca, Pilde, Nateema are Indian names for Bannisteria Caapi, a fast growing vine indigenous to the Amazon region.
Just thought you should know that Bannister would be delighted to find something to hang a real complaint on, so watch your back.
Detective Sergeant Bannister was an administrative decision which was outside her area.
Gripping the bannister like a pommel horse, he vaulted over the railing and onto the lower stairs, covering the two flights in a single fluid motion.
Flinging the sack over his shoulder, Harry began a cautious ascent of the main staircase, clinging to the bannister and trying to lighten his tread on the potentially creaky floor boards.
The detective followed slowly, hanging on to the bannister like a drunken man.
Sciss was leaning on the bannister of the staircase with his eyes half-closed, a vague, pained smile playing about his lips.
Jay Bannister, pilot of the Kordeshev, acknowledged, and then told him the idea was crazy.
It was big and broad-headed, with elephant ears to right and left, and white tusks like bannisters on a spiral staircase.
George Bannister and her housekeeper Tina spoke of witnessing, from a kitchen pantry at the rear of the Bannisters' house, a episode involving Jerry Bozer, drunk and disheveled, turning up morning to ring the Hearts' doorbell and to call out piteously for Mrs.
He and his wife and the Hearts' other nextdoor neighbors the Bannisters complained bitterly at their clubs to whoever would listen--"Why don't terrible people sell!
We might have been in the mansion still, burning the trees and the furniture and the bannisters and the paneling for warmth, and drooling and babbling when strangers came.
Worse yet, these strangers dared to ring the doorbells of the Thruns, the Bannisters, the Kaisers, the Johnstons.
Then the Dowager tottered over to the staircase, clutched at the bannisters and sat down rather heavily on the bottom step.