stanchion

From Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance (“a stay, a prop”), from Latin stāns (“standing”), present participle of stō.

• enPR: stănʹshən, IPA^(key): /ˈstænʃən/ or
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) enPR: stänʹshən, IPA^(key): /ˈstɑːnʃən/

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stanchion (plural stanchions)

Stanchions supporting velvet rope

1. A vertical pole, post, or support.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 149:

     The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.

   • 1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 10:

     You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.

   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 268:

     He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.

2. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

• barrack stanchion

stanchion (third-person singular simple present stanchions, present participle stanchioning, simple past and past participle stanchioned)

1. To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
2. To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.

• “stanchion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.