Word.ws English Dictionary

stanchion

/ˈstanʃən/US/ˈstænʃən/

stanchion noun: a vertical pole, post, or support.

stanchion: a vertical pole, post, or support
Image: Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

stanchion (plural stanchions)

  1. A vertical pole, post, or support.
    • The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 149
    • You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 10
  2. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

Verb

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 meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Vietnamese

stanchion in Tamil

எழுதண்டு, தாங்கு தூண், மரத்தூண்

stanchion in Bengali

খুঁটি, অবলম্বন দণ্ড

stanchion in Arabic

vertical pole, post or support
عَمُود ، دِعَامَة ، قائِمُ دَعمٍ فُولاذيّ

stanchion in Vietnamese

vertical pole, post or support
cột chống hai bên sườn tàu

Examples of stanchion in a sentence

  • Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the Street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, praticing.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365:
  • He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 268:

Forms of stanchion

Noun
pluralstanchions
Verb
third-person singular presentstanchions
present participlestanchioning
past participlestanchioned
paststanchioned

Origin of stanchion

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

Words formed from stanchion

Questions about stanchion

What does stanchion mean?
Stanchion means a vertical pole, post, or support.
What is stanchion in Tamil?
Stanchion in Tamil is எழுதண்டு, தாங்கு தூண், மரத்தூண். See Stanchion meaning in Tamil.
How do you use stanchion in a sentence?
Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the Street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, praticing.
What part of speech is stanchion?
Stanchion can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce stanchion?
Stanchion is pronounced /ˈstanʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of stanchion?
The plural of stanchion is stanchions.

Words near stanchion in the dictionary

  1. stancheth
  2. Stanchfield
  3. Stanchfields
  4. stanching
  5. stanchings
  6. stanchion
  7. stanchioned
  8. stanchioning
  9. stanchions
  10. stanchless
  11. stanchly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stanchion (page history and authors); stanchion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stanchion (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stanchion.wav.

Cite this entry: “stanchion.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stanchion. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.