What is "stanchions"

Usage examples of "stanchions".

Despite the warning and the stanchions planted thickly in a hold designed for combat, not cargo operations, half the landsmen crashed to the deck under the braking thrust.

A silver guardrail on stanchions curved at waist height across the opening.

Polished silver stanchions were anchored at the comers of the dais, and in their holders were tall white candles, their wicks new.

Banners hung from stanchions above the gates, and heralds stepped forward to sound their trumpets in shrill blasts that shattered the afternoon quiet.

They burned in monstrous rock kilns, the stone so hot that it glowed, in iron kettles, molten ore bubbling and steaming, in pits dug out of the rock and earth, flames licking at waste and fuel, and in iron stanchions set to give light to the valley perimeter and to aid in the keeping of the watch.

He could just make outwhat appeared to be a kind of courtyard with a few scattered benches and tables, a cluster of blackened stanchions and a weather-beaten throne covered with dust and spiderwebs He could see nothing beyond that.

Weather-beaten tables and benches were scattered about before her, ringed by a line of blackened stanchions in which tiny fingers of flame licked at the shadows.

Blackened stanchions flared and caught fire, and light exploded through the darkness.

There were stanchions to help people direct themselves in weightlessness, but the light screen around the toilet in deference to the captain's sex was the only bulkhead within the compartment.

Stephen, his loaders, and the B Watch close-combat team gripped stanchions and waited.

A sailor carrying a tool kit slid along the axis of the ship, dabbing effortlessly at stanchions for control.

Stephen Gregg stood between a pair of stanchions, doing isometric exercises with his arms.

Each log or upright beam of the beacon was to be fixed to the rock by two strong and massive bats or stanchions of iron.

Two of the great iron stanchions were then set in their respective holes on each side of the beam, when a rope was passed round them and the beam, to prevent it from slipping till it could be more permanently fixed.

During the short period of one tide all that could further be done for their security was to put a single screw-bolt through the great kneed bats or stanchions on each side of the beams, and screw the nut home.