stanchion
IPA: stˈæntʃˈin
noun
- A vertical pole, post, or support.
- A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.
verb
- To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
- To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.
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Examples of "stanchion" in Sentences
- He was asking for the stanchion.
- The stanchion was disposed in 2007.
- A stanchion may be secured to the nut.
- He found the stanchion in the warehouse.
- A cross member is mounted on the stanchion members.
- A volleyball net is suspended between the stanchions.
- An integral load indicating scale is included on the stanchion.
- Stanchion members are secured to the lift assembly and extend upward.
- A sleeve of the support structure telescopically receives the stanchion.
- Supported on a vertical stanchion, it may be permanently or portably installed.
- The bus was knocked onto its side after hitting a guard rail and a steel stanchion.
- Saturday and slid into a sign stanchion, which ripped through the window line, shearing off most of the roof.
- Mr. Chara hit Mr. Pacioretty into the boards, driving his head into a stanchion supporting the glass around the ice.
- A stanchion is a restraining device that loosely clamps a goat's neck limiting its forward and backward motion while permitting some lateral motion.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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