stanchion
noun
an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
stanchioned
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past participleof stanchion.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof stanchion.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
stanchionnounan upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
Example Sentences
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And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
Tom Peel understood his business; he had every door barred and stanchioned, and the windows protected, as well as the means to his hand would allow.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
The doors were closed, and the windows were stanchioned with iron.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
