baluster

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They are designed for a baluster style of railing with pickets and can’t be used with all railing types.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2021

One stair baluster is still broken; its loose base has scratched the floor, and its paint is chipped and old.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

Sometimes the mid-wall shaft is a baluster, turned in a lathe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

It took her a long time to go upstairs; her head whirled, and if she had not clung to the baluster she would have fallen.

From Amabel Channice by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

It rests on the Corinthian capital of a very bulbous baluster, is square, and has on each side four beautiful little Corinthian columns, fluted and surrounded with large acanthus leaves at the bottom.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum