from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun An upright pole, post, or support.
noun A framework consisting of two or more vertical bars, used to secure cattle in a stall or at a feed trough.
transitive verb To equip with stanchions.
transitive verb To confine (cattle) by means of stanchions.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A post, pillar, or beam used for a support, as a piece of timber supporting one of the main parts of a roof; a prop.
noun One of the upright bars in a stall for cattle.
noun In ship-building, an upright post or beam of different forms, used to support the deck, the rails, the nettings, awnings, etc.
noun plural In milit. engin., one of the upright side-pieces of a gallery-frame.
To fasten to or by a stanchion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Arch.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
noun (Naut.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
noun A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A verticalpole, post, or support.
noun A framework of such posts, used to secure or confinecattle.
verb To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
verb To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun any vertical post or rod used as a support
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English stanchon, from Old French estanchon, probably from estance, act of standing upright, prop, from estans, present participle of ester, to stand, from Latin stāre; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance ("a stay, a prop"), from Latin stans ("standing"), present participle of stō.
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Examples
Yasushi Takashita smiled sheepishly when his slender girlfriend Rika, clinging to the train stanchion next to him, suggested he use the Internet to search for some college-related information he needs.
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.
The recipe calls for "1 medium cow, about 1,400 pounds, butterflied, skin removed" and "1 heavy block-and-tackle attached to a steel stanchion set in concrete."
On Saturday, 15 people were killed and more than 20 injured when another coach, destined for Chinatown from Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Casino, overturned and slid into a highway sign stanchion in the Bronx.
I felt like one of those guys who's walking briskly down the street text messaging and is suddenly knocked cold by a streetlight stanchion he didn't see.
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