stanchion

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  1. noun An upright pole, post, or support.
  2. noun A framework consisting of two or more vertical bars, used to secure cattle in a stall or at a feed trough.
  3. transitive verb To equip with stanchions.
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  • I made a wild leap for a stanchion, when the cabin apparently began turning and twisting around me while I hung suspended in the center of the room. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • So Morag's lead was fastened to a stanchion, and she was left in a very ill temper ruffling her wings on a spare yard. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
  • He locked the spotted Jersey in the stanchion, then turned to see a figure silhouetted in the crooked doorway. —  Aeon Five
  • And the big white cow would twist her head as far around as her stanchion would let her, and stretch her lean neck to the utmost, hoping for a share of the treat. —  The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales
  • Another extended from the bow to the stern stanchion, directly over the keel, about six inches higher than those at the sides. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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  1. Middle English stanchon, from Old French estanchon, probably from estance, act of standing upright, prop, from estans, present participle of ester, to stand, from Latin stāre; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also stancheon, stanchon, staunchon; from Old French estançon, estanson, French étançon, a prop, staff, diminutive of Old French estance, a stanchion, prop, support, literally a station: see stance. Cf. stanchel.
  2. from stanchion, n.
 

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