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STANCHION (Fr. etancon, a wooden post)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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STANCHION (Fr. etancon, a wooden post)

STANCHION (Fr. etancon, a wooden
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POST
post) , an architectural

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TERM

term applied to the upright

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IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron bars in windows which pass through the eyes of the

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SADDLE (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Sattel, Dut. zadel, also in Russ. siedlo and Lat. sella, for sedla; it is not derived directly from Lat. sedile, which means a chair, but all the words are to be referred to the root sad-, which gives

saddle bars or

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HORIZONTAL

horizontal irons to steady the

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LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL USE OF

lights . The

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CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call the latter traverses, the stanchions montants, and the whole arrangement

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ARMATURE (from Lat. armatura, armour)

armature . Stanchions frequently finish with ornamental heads forged out of the iron .

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