The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.
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Stanchion
/ˈstænʃən/
Synonyms for "stanchion" (59 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (29)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriespoststructural element
More specific
5 entriesanimal tether postbarrier postrailing postrope poststall divider
Collocations
5 entriesbarrier stanchioncrowd control stanchionrope stanchionstable stanchionstall stanchion
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
12 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- преграда noun (confinement)
Czech
1 entries- ohrazení noun (confinement)
Dutch
1 entries- afsluiting noun (confinement)
Finnish
1 entries- aitaus noun (confinement)
German
4 entries- Gatter noun (confinement)
- Gitterstab noun (confinement)
- Gitterstangen noun (confinement)
- Stand noun (confinement)
Kashubian
1 entries- kłonica noun (confinement)
Polish
2 entries- kłonica noun (confinement)
- kłonica noun ((on a mountain bike fork))
Spanish
1 entries- barra noun ((on a mountain bike fork))
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.
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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.
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He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.
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