Newel

Definitions

1. A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.
2. A novelty; a new thing.
   obsolete
3. A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.

Equivalents

Examples

“We went along the hall to the end⟳ and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post⟳.”

“1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete⟳ Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser He was so enamoured with the newel.”

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