Stanchions is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 601 anagrams from letters in stanchions (achinnosst).
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
"Davits an' stanchions, men—never mind the rail," said the boatswain.
They then undermined it, supporting its foundations by stanchions of wood.
Over the whole there was a light roof, supported on stanchions.
stanchions, like a forest of bare trees, supported the deck above.
The beam upon which the stanchions of the beak-head bulk-head stand.
Begin by inserting the stanchions in the sockets in the lower plane.
The remainder of the crew clung to ring-bolts or stanchions, or whatever they could grasp.
In the centre was a table that travelled on stanchions from the roof to the deck.
We clung for our lives to ropes, stanchions, and ring-bolts.
Skipper: We can have stanchions all round the ship and double lines.