stanchion

plural stanchions

1. A vertical pole, post, or support.

   The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 149

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   You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.

   1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 10

   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.

   1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365

   He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.

   2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 268

2. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

present singular third person stanchions · participle present stanchioning · participle past stanchioned · past stanchioned

1. To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
2. To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.