Stanchions

Word STANCHIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Stanchions"

What do we mean by stanchions?

A vertical pole, post, or support.

A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

The pole that up holds velvet ropes usually made of metal or plastic. Urban Dictionary

When you hit the perfect shot with a football (soccer) and it wedges itself in the top left or top right in the goal net support (stanchion). 70s/80s/90s term as typically goal stanchions don't really exist any more. These days: top bins; but the ball was wedged in the upright to be retrieved manually. Urban Dictionary

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The word "stanchions" in example sentences

Flags festooned the running-track around the pitch, hung from every means of support, such as stanchions and pillars, and were draped continuously along the edge of the upper-tier of the stands. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You'd better get some catalogs, too, Bob, on cow stable fittings, such as stanchions, sanitary water bowls and manure carriers. ❋ John Thomas Simpson (N/A)

The creaking and groaning of the timbers, stanchions, and bulkheads, as the strain the vessel was undergoing was felt, served to drown the groans of the dying man as he tossed uneasily in his bunk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reuters Ticket agents remove the stanchions that form the ticketing lines at JFK International Airport as the New York prepares for Hurricane Irene. ❋ Timothy W. Martin (2011)

At eight thirty Monday morning, two days after the debate, Morrison campaign volunteers had finished hanging a blue sheet on the wall of the otherwise drab conference room of a precision tool company in Columbus, Ohio, and were moving two flags and stanchions into place. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

Employees maneuver past retractable stanchions and temporary paper scrims obscuring some 130 objects of Mr. Cattelan's irreverent oeuvre that dangle from aluminum truss in the Guggenheim's rotunda. ❋ Kimberly Chou (2011)

The hunters' whip skimming over their cowered heads silences the pandemonium, and then suddenly we are on our way and I am left to sprint after the rapidly disappearing napariaq the pair of wooden stanchions at the rear of a sledge. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There, amid torqued stanchions, lay a limp figure, pierced in many places and bloodless. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Innocence has no meaning, but it does have motive: when the lamprey pond overflows the pole beans will require stanchions. ❋ Bill Yarrow (2011)

But further investigation revealed the existing stanchions from the original building. ❋ Dana Rubinstein (2011)

Each time we reached a lock we all leapt around, heaving on a variety of stanchions, nauseated by the filthy water, squealing as wet ropes slapped about. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I [went] to the [movies] and [saw] a stanchion. ❋ Mysterious Being (2011)

I [smashed] a [volley] into the top right and got a [stanchion sandwich]. ❋ The_names_have_been_changed (2023)

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