Thesaurus / uprights
FEEDBACKsynonyms for uprights
synonyms for uprights
- dam
- dock
- jetty
- promenade
- wharf
- berth
- buttress
- column
- landing
- levee
- mole
- pilaster
- pile
- piling
- pillar
- post
- quay
- slip
- upright
- pierage
- pedestal
- colonnade
- mast
- obelisk
- pier
- pilaster
- piling
- post
- prop
- shaft
- stanchion
- support
- tower
- upright
- monument
- brace
- buttress
- caryatid
- colonnade
- cylinder
- mast
- minaret
- monolith
- obelisk
- pedestal
- peristyle
- pier
- pilaster
- post
- prop
- pylon
- shaft
- standard
- stay
- stele
- support
- totem
- tower
- upright
- underpinning
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How to use uprights in a sentence
After breakfast Oertling came to take me to try the pianos of a celebrated manufacturer of uprights.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYThe horizontal strips A should be all fastened together when sawing the notches to fit over the uprights.
THE BOY MECHANIC, BOOK 2VARIOUSTo stiffen the whole structure, a small amount of framework, in the form of heavy uprights, was set in the ground.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONWhen erecting the uprights, care is taken to leave two or three bits of branch project at intervals along the length of the poles.
THE RANGER BOYS AND THE BORDER SMUGGLERSCLAUDE A. LABELLEIt was a big log spanning the stream, with a shaky railing nailed to it, made of a long pole attached to several uprights.
SIX LITTLE BUNKERS AT MAMMY JUNE'SLAURA LEE HOPEThey have evinced much ingenuity, he says, in attaching the uprights to the flat timbers.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSMade of red cedar and unpolished, the cornices and uprights of them were carved with arabesques in high relief.
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADYLUCAS MALETThe Master said, Tsang Wen lodged his tortoise with hills on the pillars and reeds on the uprights: was this his wisdom?
THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUSCONFUCIUSAlong the sill of the passage may be seen the stumps of uprights which may perhaps have supported a rail.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF RIPONCECIL WALTER CHARLES HALLETTThe uprights on the two sides have their ends bent over and lashed together, forming arches for the roof.
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIESD.C. BEARD