Stanchion

Definition: Stanchion

Stanchion

Noun

1. Any vertical post or rod used as a support.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stanchion" was first used: 1321. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Support

Post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.

Crosswords: Stanchion

Expressions using "stanchion": handhold stanchion ♦ rail stanchion. Additional references.

Beginning with "stanchion": stanchion-gun.

Albanian

shtyllë (backbone, bankseat, bearing, column, mainstay, pile, pillar, pole, post, staff, standard, stock, tower), mbështetëse (backrest, bearer, bracket, buttress, console, crutch, prop, rack, reinforcement, rest, saddle, shore, stand, support, supporter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسماك, ‏سناد قائم, ‏ركيزة (crutch, mounting, outrigger, pier, pillar, prop, stilt, string, strut), ‏دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, put up, reinforce, rest, second, shore, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, underpin, uphold, upholding), ‏دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стълб (column, pier, pile, pillar, pole, post, riser, shaft, staff, standard, verge), преграда (baffle, barricade, bulkhead, compartment, division, hedge, hurdle, interception, obstruction, occlusion, partition, railing, screen, septum, traverse, web). (various references)

Chinese 

柱子 (Pillar). (various references)

Czech

sloup (column, pillar, stake). (various references)

Danish

stoette (prop, shore, skore), stave (spell), stav (arbor, member, rod cell, rod-shaped bacillus, shook, slat, stab cell, staff cell, stake, stave, stay, stud), soejle (column, pedestal, pier, pillar, supporting column), selvlåsende åg (cow trap, feeding yoke, guillotine yoke, neck yoke, rigid neck yoke, self-locking cattle, yoke), scepter (handhold stanchion, rail stanchion), vognkaep (stake, stay), pille (pill), baerende soejle (column, pedestal, pier, pillar, supporting column), bøjlestangsbindsel (cow trap, feeding yoke, guillotine yoke, neck yoke, rigid neck yoke, self-locking cattle, yoke). (various references)

Dutch

stijl (stake, style), post (mail, pole, post, stake), paal (pole, post, rod, stake), deurpost (pole, post, stake). (various references)

Esperanto

fosto (pole, post, stake). (various references)

Faeroese

steyri (column, pillar, pole, post, stake), stólpi (pole, post, rod, stake). (various references)

Farsi 

پایه (Base, Basis, Bedrock, Buttress, Cantilever, Column, Degree, Ground, Groundwork, Leg, Mark, Measure, Mount, Outrigger, Phase, Pillar, Prop, Root, Sill, Stage, Stalk, Status, Stock, Stratum), میل (Bar, Delight, Desire, Goo, List, Perch, Ramrod, Rod, Stomach, Streak, Tendency, Turquoise, Will, Zest), مهاریامحدودکردن , نگهدار (Backer, Buttress, Keeper, Looker, Patron, Prop, Protector, Tenter), حاءل (Buffer, Buttress, Guard, Louver, Prop, Shutter, Stay), تیردارکردن (Pole), تیر (Arrow, Bar, Dart, Gunshot, Ledger, Lug, Mast, Perch, Prop, Shaft, Shot, Spike, Staff, Staple, Timber), سایبان یاچادرجلومغازه , شمع . (various references)

Finnish

tukipylväs (mainstay, supporting pillar), tukipilari (column, follower, pedestal, pier, pillar, stationary support, steady rest, supporting column), pylväs (column, pillar, post), pilari (column, pillar), paalu (pile, pole), kuormatuki (stake, stay), kannatinpylväs (buttress, supporting pillar), jalusta (base, pedestal, stand). (various references)

French

poteau (stake, standard), pieu (stake). (various references)

Frisian

peal (pole, post, stake). (various references)

German

Pfosten (jamb, jambs, newel, pole, post, prop, stake, stud, support, upright), Pfeiler (buttress, pier, pillar, pole, post, pylon, stake). (various references)

Greek 

κολόνα (column, pillar, post), κίων (column, pillar), στύλοσ (baluster, column, jamb, pillar, post, puncheon, scape, strut), στύλος (pillar, style, stylus), στυλίδιο (pillar, post, stay, strut), στήριγμα (abutment, bearer, bearing, brace, cleat, foothold, prop, purchase, rest, stay, stays, support), στήλη (column, pile, stele), μπουντέλι (prop, raker, shore, skore, stay), μεταλλικό περιλαίμιο (cow trap, feeding yoke, guillotine yoke, neck yoke, rigid neck yoke, self-locking cattle, yoke), υποστήριγμα (bracket, cantilever, crutch, shore, strut, support, suspensory, sustainment), αντηρίδα (arm, buttress, post, spur, stay, strut), ορθοστάτης (housing, king-post, leg, post, prop, shank, soldier, sprag, standard, stud, vertical), δόγα,ντούγα (stake, stay). (various references)

Hungarian

oszlop (column, file, mainstay, pile, pillar, prop, rectifier, standard, support), támaszték (bearer, bearing, stay crutch, support, supporter), szerkezeti vasoszlop, rakonca, fedélzettartó támoszlop, függőleges tám, dúc (brace, bracket, buttress, crutch, prop, stereo, stilt, stoop, strutter, tree), alátámasztás (corroboration, piling, shoulder, stand, support, supporter). (various references)

Italian

trappola (gin, net, pitfall, snare, trap), ritto (erect), puntello (prop, support), puntale (cap, ferrule, tag, tip), pilone (pylon), pilastro (pillar, pillars), pila (battery, heap, pier, pile, stack), montante (incoming, jamb, post, strut, uppercut, upright), giogaia metallica (cow trap, feeding yoke, guillotine yoke, neck yoke, rigid neck yoke, self-locking cattle, yoke), doga (lag, stave), colonna (column, pillar), candeliere (candlestick, sconce). (various references)

Manx

coloon. (various references)

Papiamen

palu (baton, cane, pole, post, stake, stick, timber, tree, wood), palo (pole, post, stake, timber, tree, wood). (various references)

Pig Latin

anchionstay.(various references)

Portuguese

pilar (buttress, column, pestle, spile, stoop). (various references)

Romanian

susţine printr-un montant, suport (bolster, carriage, chuck, foot, holdfast, Jack, leg, mat, Mount, pad, pedal, plinth, prop, puncheon, reliance, shore, stand, steady, stem, support), stâlp (adherent, backbone, column, pier, pilaster, pillar, pilot, post, prop, pylon, shaft, spile, staff, stake, strut, stud, support, supporter, upholder), proptea (pad, post, prop, shore, supporter), pop. (various references)

Russian 

стойка (cheek, column, dead set, handstand, leg, puncheon, rack, soda fountain, stand, standard, stilt, strut, tree, upright). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podupirač (brace, bracket, buttress, shore, spur, stay, strut, support, truss, underlay), direk (post, riser, stud). (various references)

Spanish

poste (bollard, newel, picket, pole, post, pylon, stake, stump, upright), puntal (brace, pitprop, prop, puncheon, shore, strut). (various references)

Sranan

postu (pole, post, stake). (various references)

Swahili

mti (pole, post, stake, timber, tree, wood). (various references)

Swedish

stötta (chock, prop, shore, stick, strut, truss, underlay, underpin), stolpe (pallet, pillar, post, upright), stör (bothering, caber, disturbs, pole, post, stake, stick, sturgeon). (various references)

Turkish

tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), taşımak (bear, bear away, carry, carry away, convey, haul, put across, relocate, remove, ride, run, sustain, tote, transport, waft, walk, wash, wear), direk (atlas, backbone, beam, column, mast, pillar, pole, post, pylon, spar, stake, stick, upright), desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, identify, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, prop, root for, second, shore, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, subordinate, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder). (various references)

Ukrainian

підпірка (backing, balk, chock, counterfort, pit prop, post, puncheon, shore, trellis, upholder), підпирати (back, brace, buttress, chock, prop, shore, skid, stake, strut, sustain, underlay, underpin, underset). (various references)

Yucatec

hunts'it che' (pole, post, stake), che' (baton, cane, pole, post, stake, stick, timber, tree, wood). (various references)

uru. (various references)

columna, columnae, columnaeque, columnam, columnarum, columnas, columnis, palus, stare, vacerra. (various references)

estanchon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stanchion": stanchioned, stanchions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stanchion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saanichton, Sanchi, Sanchia, stancion, stantion. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: actinons, canonist, chitosan, contains, sanction, sonantic.

-2 letters: actinon, actions, anoints, atonics, cantons, cations, chanson, chitons, contain, incants, isotach, nations, noncash, onanist, stannic, tannish, tonnish.

-3 letters: actins, action, anions, anoint, antics, atonic, cannot, canons, canthi, canton, cantos, casino, cation, chains, chants, chinas, chinos, chints, chiton, coatis, conins, cotans, honans, incant, nachos, nasion, nastic, nation.

+1 letter: stanchions.

+2 letters: stanchioned.

+3 letters: anthocyanins, fucoxanthins, inchoateness, machinations, nonaesthetic, phoneticians.

+4 letters: anachronistic, cachinnations, chlorinations, containership, indomethacins, nonarchitects, nonchauvinist, nonhistorical, nonhysterical, ornithischian, pantechnicons, shortchanging.

+5 letters: accountantship, acetaminophens, anticensorship, antimonarchist, consultantship, containerships, countershading, hallucinations, inchoatenesses, mechanizations, noncharismatic, nonchauvinists, nonmechanistic, nonpsychiatric, ornithischians.