Definitions for baluster

baluster bal·us·ter

Spelling: [bal-uh-ster]
IPA: /ˈbæl ə stər/

Baluster is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 539 anagrams from letters in baluster (abelrstu).

Definitions for baluster

noun

  1. Architecture. any of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing.
  2. balusters, a balustrade.
  3. any of various symmetrical supports, as furniture legs or spindles, tending to swell toward the bottom or top.

Origin of baluster

1595-1605; French, Middle French balustre Italian balaustro pillar shaped like the calyx of the pomegranate flower, ultimately Latin balaustium Greek balaústion pomegranate flower

Examples for baluster

Clutching with either hand the baluster I leaned over, listening.

“Thou hast been in trouble,” she said, leaning on the baluster above him.

This stairway had no baluster, and was not safe in the dark for strangers to the house.

The wild spasm passed, she rises to her feet, and stands leaning upon the baluster rail, looking out and listening.

Sometimes the mid-wall shaft is a baluster, turned in a lathe.

He laid on the broad marble top of the baluster a little chamois-bag.

Fred took his place, and shook the baluster, then the other—its fellow—but there was no result.

Henry leant against the baluster and sobbed, not knowing what else to do.

Dorothy looked over the baluster at the humming top, but said nothing.

When he last saw his betrothed alive, it was in that same place, and almost in a similar attitude—leaning over the baluster rail.

Word Value for baluster
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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