Stanchion

Definitions

1. A vertical pole, post, or support.
2. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“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.”

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

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