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stanchion

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈstanʃən/Part of speech nounSorted achinnostStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. any vertical post or rod used as a support

Word origin

From Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance (“a stay, a prop”), from Latin stāns (“standing”), present participle of stō.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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