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

Presently their faces showed over the baluster rail, and another step brought them upon the roof.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne

It rests on the Corinthian capital of a very bulbous baluster, is square, and has on each side four beautiful little Corinthian columns, fluted and surrounded with large acanthus leaves at the bottom.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

I stopped a moment to take breath; then I ascended in the dark, my hand on the baluster.

From The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian