[ UK /stˈɑːnʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. any vertical post or rod used as a support
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How To Use stanchion In A Sentence

  • The students sat in the open cockpit to learn terms such as mizzen mast, jib and stanchion. The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
  • A jet skier who crashed into a stanchion on Blackpool North Pier may have had a heart attack, an inquest has heard.
  • Cows were maintained in open dry-lot pens with self-locking head stanchions along a flat concrete feed line.
  • There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
  • There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
  • A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
  • For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
  • The legs kicked a few times, then were still before the line was tied off on a stanchion. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • There, amid torqued stanchions, lay a limp figure, pierced in many places and bloodless. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
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