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Definition of Baluster
1. Noun. One of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing.
Definition of Baluster
1. n. A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
Definition of Baluster
1. Noun. (architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baluster
1. a railing support [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baluster
Literary usage of Baluster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford by John Henry Parker, Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt, John Le Keux (1875)
"The belfry windows are of the early _,— character called baluster windows.
This church was carefully restored in 1854, under the direction of Mr. Street, ..."
2. Practical Sheet Metal Work and Demonstrated Patterns: A Comprehensive Treatise by John Henry Teschmacher (1911)
"PATTERN FOR A RAKING baluster To develop the pattern for an octagonal baluster in a
... 80, in which A shows a vertical baluster in a raking balustrade, ..."
3. Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of ...by Samuel Atkins Eliot by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1906)
"The mother of Joseph Ballister Russell was Sarah Elizabeth baluster, daughter of
Joseph Ballister, a well-known merchant of Boston, ..."
4. Carpentry and Building (1905)
"20, with ends BB raised so l could cut under the baluster between them, ...
The screws were to go into the lathe center holes so l could turn the baluster. ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"At Melbury Sampford is a fine large standing cup with a cylindrical bowl on a
baluster stem, with a cover terminating in a cone or pineapple, made in 1683, ..."
6. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Joseph Warren Chapman (1904)
"MARTIN, Hannah, and Charles Le baluster, July 13, 1769.» Hannah, and John Tissue,
Dec. 19, 1771.* Hannah, Mrs., and Nathan Bowen, Esq., Aug. 13, 1797. ..."
7. Shaw's Civil Architecture: Being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System by Edward Shaw (1852)
"The baluster is not found in the works of the ancients, but owes its origin to
the restoration of the art in Italy. It, like the column, consists of the ..."
8. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Donald Moore, Thomas Rowland Powel (1859)
"The font bears date 1737,—a hideous, nondescript, baluster-shaped thing, and the
sooner it is replaced by a suitable one the better. ..."
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