stanchion
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance (“a stay, a prop”), from Latin stāns (“standing”), present participle of stō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: stănʹshən, stänʹshən, (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstanʃən/, /ˈstɑːnʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - enPR: stănʹshən, (US) IPA(key): /ˈstænʃən/
Noun
[edit]stanchion (plural stanchions)
- A vertical pole, post, or support.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 149:
- The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.
- 1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 10:
- You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.
- 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365:
- Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the Street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, praticing.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 268:
- He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.
- A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]vertical pole, post or support
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confinement
Verb
[edit]stanchion (third-person singular simple present stanchions, present participle stanchioning, simple past and past participle stanchioned)
- To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
- To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.
References
[edit]- “stanchion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.