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Definition: Newel |
NewelNoun1. The post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail. 2. The central pillar of a circular staircase. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "newel" was first used: 1362. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building | The upright post or the upright formed by the inner or smaller ends of steps about which steps of a circular staircase wind. In a straight flight staircase, the principal post at the foot or the secondary post at a landing. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | A vertical supporting post in the centre of a spiral staircase. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A newel is the upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Newel."
Synonym: NewelSynonym: newel post (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Newel |
| English words defined with "newel": Corkscrew stairs ♦ Hollow newel ♦ Open newel ♦ Solid newel. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "newel": Nucleus. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Eldridge R. Fenimore Johnson house, Moorestown, N.J. Finial and newel. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of Allegheny County Court House, H.H. Richardson, architect, showing staircase with ornate newel light standard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Newel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Newel" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "newel": Hollow newel ♦ newel post ♦ open newel ♦ solid newel. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
newel post | 51 |
newel | 30 |
newel stairway | 5 |
garth newel | 4 |
antique newel post | 4 |
lamp newel post | 4 |
installing newel post | 4 |
carved newel post | 3 |
newel post wood | 2 |
exterior newel post | 2 |
box newel | 2 |
newel oak post | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "newel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | maegler (leads), balustradeafslutning. (various references) | |
Dutch | trappaal, kop van balustrade. (various references) | |
Farsi | پایه نرده , تیرمیان پلکان مارپیچ . (various references) | |
French | poteau d'escalier, fuseau, extrémité de balustrade. (various references) | |
German | spindel (arbor, spindle). (various references) | |
Greek | μπαμπάς περιστροφικής σκάλας, πυρήνας περιστροφικής κλίμακας, άκρο πλευράς, ακροστάτης περιστροφικής κλίμακας. (various references) | |
Hungarian | orsópillér (newel post), lépcsőorsó, korlátpillér (newel post). (various references) | |
Italian | montante di ringhiera, estremita della fiancata. (various references) | |
Manx | quailley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewelnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coluna de escada de caracol, cabeca. (various references) | |
Spanish | nabo (prick, turnip), torcedor (twister), poste (bollard, picket, pole, post, pylon, stake, stanchion, stump, upright), columna de escalera de caracol, cabeza de balaustrada. (various references) | |
Swedish | spindelpelare. (various references) | |
Turkish | merdiven direği, merdiven desteği (riser). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | колона гвинтових сходів, балясина перил. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | noel, novel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "newel": newels. (additional references) | |
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"Newel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ewel, fewell, hewel, knewel, mewel, nadel, nawe, Nawwaf, Ndebele, Nebel, necel, nedel, Nedwell, Needell, neel, netel, nevel, newall, Newcey, newe, newed, Newely, newes, Newey, newil, newo, newte, niel, Niepel, Nieuwe, niwe, nowell, Nuwe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-w" | |
-1 letter: weel, ween. | |
-2 letters: eel, ewe, lee, nee, new, wee, wen. | |
-3 letters: el, en, ne, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-w" | |
+1 letter: newels, wedeln. | |
+2 letters: enwheel, renewal, wedelns. | |
+3 letters: enwheels, jeweling, lewdness, newlywed, newsless, newsreel, pinwheel, renewals, treelawn, unwelded, wedeling, weeklong, weldment, wellness, whalemen, wheeling, wheelman, wheelmen, wineless. | |
+4 letters: beclowned, enwheeled, fellowmen, handwheel, indweller, jewelling, knowledge, lownesses, meanwhile, newlyweds, newsreels, nosewheel, pinwheels, renewable, renewably, rewelding, treelawns, tweedling, unwelcome, waterline, weaseling, weldments, weltering, whalebone, wheedling, wheelings, wheelsman, wheelsmen, wheepling, wholeness, wolverine, wulfenite. | |
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