baluster

Example Sentences

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They are designed for a baluster style of railing with pickets and can’t be used with all railing types.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2021

One stair baluster is still broken; its loose base has scratched the floor, and its paint is chipped and old.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

Mamma Stewardson, being up stairs, called in a low voice over the baluster, "Yes, dears, and take a large one."

From Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The upper windows of these towers differ little from the Anglo-Saxon, except in that the two lights are separated by a shaft or short column in place of the rounded baluster.

From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George

He falls against the baluster and waves his arms. mr. tozer.   Silence there for the corpse!

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley