Definitions for banister

banister ban·is·ter

Spelling: [ban-uh-ster]
IPA: /ˈbæn ə stər/

Banister is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 621 anagrams from letters in banister (abeinrst).

Definitions for banister

noun

  1. a baluster.
  2. Sometimes, banisters. the balustrade of a staircase.

Origin of banister

1660-70; apparently by dissimilation from earlier barrister, alteration of baluster, perhaps by association with bar1

Examples for banister

She ran half-way down the stairs, and peeped round the banister.

If you had left it out on the banister, it would be clean now—it's still a good one.

“I saw one man, he got tired, and he went over to the banister and he jumped off and killed himself,” she says.

"Well, it shall not rest where it is," she added, tapping the banister with her yellow fingers.

I ran as I was, barefooted, to the head of the stairs and looked over the banister.

I'd have you to know, Mrs. Stoker, that my uncle was a banister of the law.

On a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft.

Nina lingered for a moment with her hand on the banister, and then hurried to her room.

Staggering out on the landing, he leaned far over the banister.

It is so long since you descended these steps, and there is no banister—you will fall.

Word Value for banister
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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