Crossword clues for stanchion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stanchion \Stan"chion\ (st[a^]n"sh[u^]n; 277), n. [OF. estanson, estan[,c]on, F. ['e]tan[,c]on, from OF. estance a stay, a prop, from L. stans, stantis, standing, p. pr. of stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Stanza.] [Written also stanchel.]
(Arch.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
(Naut.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "post, pillar, or beam used for support," from Old French estanchon "prop, brace, support" (13c., Modern French étançon), probably from estant "upright," from present participle of ester "be upright, stand," from Latin stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vertical pole, post, or support. 2 A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle. vb. 1 To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions. 2 To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.
WordNet
n. any vertical post or rod used as a support
Wikipedia
A stanchion is a sturdy upright fixture that provides support for some other object. They can be a permanent fixture.
Usage examples of "stanchion".
The marquee directed her to elevators in Stanchion 5, one klick east by pedway, but Zoranna was tired.
Lieutenant Malstrom returned my salute in offhand fashion, his eye on the suited sailor untying our forward safety line from the shoreside stanchion.
He noted that the handrails were long unpolished, that a couple of stanchions were missing and that several treads were broken.
Cutter told himself, but then he walked with the track-layers as they bent the iron road through gaps between sediment and basalt stanchions and through the V the graders had cut in soft displaced earth and there, there, there wetly ashine, black but glowing, were the rails.
He was lying with his arms outside the bedclothes, his arms both connected to drips that hung from stanchions.
The lee gunwhale dipped and the sea reached up for her, spouting from the feet of the guardrail stanchions.
He got the little bottle of boron trifluoride out of the dashboard and applied a few drops with an eyedropper to the elastomer line, just forward of the bowline knot that hitched it to an interior stanchion.
The floor beneath them was opaque and solid, probably a single sheet of whiskered stone held up by metal stanchions and trusswork without a gram of wellstone anywhere in the mix.
Renouf, who was genuinely fascinated by bomb ketches and very proud of his mortars, regarded 4,000 yards as an acceptable range: the master armourer at Brest had tried out all four mortars at the sea range off Camaret, firing five rounds from each, with the master shipwright in attendance, and going down and inspecting the underdeck stanchions and the stringers after each round was fired.
The Stars and Stripes had been peeled off the metal stanchion, and the freezie had insisted on carrying it himself.
He noted that the handrails were long unpolished, that a couple of stanchions were missing and that several treads were broken.
The red and gold banners on their stanchions fluttered and the pennons waved, as a small dark cloud appeared in the sky.
As where he stood there was no bulwark but only a rail and stanchions I was able to take in at a glance the whole of his voluminous person from his feet to the high crown of his soft black hat, which sat like an absurd flanged cone on his big head.
As where he stood there was no bulwark, but only a rail and stanchions, I was able to take in at a glance the whole of his voluminous person from his feet to the high crown of his soft black hat, which sat like an absurd flanged cone on his big head.
Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time.