The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.
Source: wiktionary
Stanchion
//ˈstænʃən//
Synonyms for "stanchion" (52 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (26)
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Translations
60 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عَمُود ، دِعَامَة ، قائِمُ دَعمٍ فُولاذيّ noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Bulgarian
2 entries- подпора noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- преграда noun (confinement)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 支柱 noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- 柱子 noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Czech
3 entries- ohrazení noun (confinement)
- sloup noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- sloupek noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Dutch
3 entries- afsluiting noun (confinement)
- paal noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- post noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Esperanto
1 entries- fosto noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Finnish
3 entries- aitaus noun (confinement)
- paalu noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- tolppa noun (vertical pole, post or support)
French
2 entries- appui noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- étançon noun (vertical pole, post or support)
German
4 entries- Gatter noun (confinement)
- Gitterstab noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- Gitterstab noun (confinement)
- Gitterstange noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Greek
2 entries- ορθοστάτης noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- στύλος noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Hungarian
1 entries- oszlop noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Italian
2 entries- puntello noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- sostegno noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Japanese
2 entries- スタンション noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- スタンチョン noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Kashubian
1 entries- kłonica noun (confinement)
Korean
1 entries- 기둥 noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Lithuanian
2 entries- pastovas noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- stovas noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Māori
1 entries- tokotū noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Polish
4 entries- kolumienka noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- kłonica noun (confinement)
- kłonica noun ((on a mountain bike fork))
- słup noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Portuguese
1 entries- poste noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Russian
4 entries- коло́нна noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- пи́ллерс noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- подпо́рка noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- сто́йка noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Spanish
2 entries- barra noun ((on a mountain bike fork))
- puntal noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Swedish
2 entries- stolpe noun (vertical pole, post or support)
- stötta noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cột chống hai bên sườn tàu noun (vertical pole, post or support)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.
Source: wiktionary
Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the Street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, praticing.
Source: wiktionary
He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.
Source: wiktionary
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