Noun: stanchion
| Singular | stanchion |
| Plural | stanchions |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like stanchion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance (“a stay, a prop”), from Latin stāns (“standing”), present participle of stō. See: French Nouns '
étançon', Latin Nouns '
stāns'.