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A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
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Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
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A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
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Upright iron bar between mullions of window, screen, etc. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 415)
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An upright metal pole, bolted to the deck, and used to support permanent fixtures such as life lines.
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a device with two rails that was closed around a cows neck after she entered a stall and to keep her restrained in the stall.
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A pillar of wood or iron used for various purposes in a ship: to support the deck, the quarter rails, the nettings, the awnings etc.
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One of a pair of linked upright bars that fit behind a cow's head to confine it in a stall.
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A thick upright pole used for support between the decks of a ship.
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any vertical post or rod used as a support
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Post or pillar; an upright support.
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Supporting post.
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Upright post to support ropes for crowd control.
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Block used for mounting round tubes to TSLOTS extrusions.
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The hitches used to support the nose end of trailers when they are mounted on a flat car. There are two types of stanchions: collapsible and fixed.
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vertical member such as pillar or beam that supports deck, guard rails, etc
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A vertical supporting beam usually made from steel.
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a vertical supporting beam that is mainly steel.
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One of the larger vertical posts supporting a railing. Smaller, closely spaced vertical supports are ballusters. Also see ballustrade.
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a sturdy support post, roughly one meter in height, used to define the deceleration zone and processing chutes.
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A removeable vertical iron or steel bar held in a socket on a load support bolster or wagon side to prevent the load sliding sideways off the wagon.
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A vertical supporting beam, nowadays mainly of steel.
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An upright support; often refers to ship-building.
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a movable vertical support for lifelines
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A post near the edge of the deck, used to support lifelines.
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Vertical column supporting decks, flats, girders, etc.; also called a pillar. Rail stanchions are vertical metal columns on which fence-like rails are mounted. (See rail.)
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upright support bar or beam.
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Vertical bar used to support one end of a trailer while loaded on a flat car.
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Stanchion (Fr. étançon, a wooden post), an architectural term applied to the upright iron bars in windows which pass through the eyes of the saddle bars or horizontal irons to steady the leadlight.
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