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stanchion

[stan-shuhn] / ˈstæn ʃən /


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That’s because it plans to run two lines simultaneously on either side of a new, shorter stanchion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

However, even with a payment method linked, there was an issue at the stanchion, as the scanner repeatedly prompted the addition of a payment method when trying to re-enter the seating area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024

The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024

He landed near the basket stanchion and immediately began grabbing at his left knee, while teammates reacted in obvious disbelief.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

Ged grabbed hold of a stanchion, for she lay almost over on her side, and shouted out, “Turn back to Serd, master!”

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Traffic cones have been placed around the crater, and AFP reported that waves pounding the sea front can be seen "lapping in the hole and rushing out again under the stanchions that support the home".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

The most noticeable cameras are embedded in circular screens atop chest-high stanchions, while the arena’s design cleverly hides others along the walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024

He observed that my gaze was fixed absently upon the stanchions, and after a time grew tired of waiting, and asked me what I thought of.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side—all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

Tom Peel understood his business; he had every door barred and stanchioned, and the windows protected, as well as the means to his hand would allow.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams




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