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

I felt my way down by the baluster, which required my right hand, and threw my revolver to my left.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The highest, the one on the west side, has a Corinthian capital and is enriched in front by a statue under a canopy standing on a corbel upheld by a slender baluster shaft.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The two figures had long ago disappeared in the lower rooms, and still Hartmut stood leaning on the baluster, looking downward.

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)