Definitions for stanchion

stanchion stan·chion

Spelling: [stan-shuh n]
IPA: /ˈstæn ʃən/

Stanchion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 507 anagrams from letters in stanchion (achinnost).

Definitions for stanchion

noun

  1. an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to furnish with stanchions.
  2. to secure by or to a stanchion or stanchions.

Origin of stanchion

1375-1425; late Middle English stanchon Old French estanchon, equivalent to estanche (variant of estance, probably Vulgar Latin *stantia, equivalent to Latin stant- (stem of stāns), present p

Examples for stanchion

Do you think the stanchion will hold the weight of the heavy guns?

“Looks as if he had run against a stanchion in the dark,” I observed.

Dick kept to his resolution of clinging tightly to a stanchion.

For a moment he paused as though to think, holding to a stanchion.

It seemed to him he remained there precariously alone with the stanchion for a long, long time.

She grasped a stanchion and clung there, staring at him with a wild, white face.

On the third deck down, the Wildcat tied Lily to a stanchion.

She was not lashed either, except that her painter was fast to a stanchion.

To the glory of man we will stanchion, and raise and roof it anew.

There was not a thing she could use—not a stanchion to the window, not a rod to the bed.

Word Value for stanchion
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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