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Definition of Stanchion
1. Noun. Any vertical post or rod used as a support.
Definition of Stanchion
1. n. A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
Definition of Stanchion
1. Noun. A vertical pole, post, or support. ¹
2. Noun. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle. ¹
3. Verb. To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions. ¹
4. Verb. To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stanchion
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanchion
Literary usage of Stanchion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Steelwork: Relating Principally to the Construction of Steel by Ernest George Beck (1920)
"Proceeding, if stanchions 5 and 6 had the same loading and the same moment of
inertia, the deflection of one of the small cantilevers of stanchion 6 would ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"stanchion STAPLE stanchion. Supporters in buildings ; (in ships) pieces of ...
The office of a stanchion is to thrust against an object and prevent it from ..."
3. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"CARRIAGE FOR USING A stanchion-GUN ON LAND. BEFORE we cross the Channel for ...
A stanchion-gun may be fired from a carriage that can be wheeled over land ..."
4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1892)
"Diagonal braca from stanchion» to beams.—Diagonal braces shall be fastened on
each stanchion on both sides of same, running up to top side of beam and ..."
5. Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker, William Trotter Porter (1846)
"The advantage of a stanchion-gun over a shoulder duck-gun is far more than ...
on any part of the English coast • • PUNT FOR THE USE OF A stanchion-GUN. ..."
6. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting. by Peter Hawker (1830)
"The advantage of a stanchion gun over a shoulder duck-gun is far more than ...
PUNT FOR THE USE OF A stanchion GUN. A gunning-punt, which is very narrow, ..."
7. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1826)
"This experiment, was tried, in my presence, by Elijah Buckle, one of the best
stanchion-gunners in England, who, some time ago, left the coast of Essex for ..."
8. Theory of Structures by Arthur Morley (1912)
"Thus the assumption that the roof is rigid to compression between its supports
is on the safe side for the estimation of the leeward stanchion stresses ..."
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