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plural stanchions
A vertical pole, post, or support. quotations examples
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, page 10
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
A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle. examples
third-person singular simple present stanchions, present participle stanchioning, simple past and past participle stanchioned
To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions. examples
To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle. examples