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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It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side—all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
The deck cabins, though yawning and seamed, were so firmly stanchioned that he could not drag out so much as a plank.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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
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
