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 Mary Roberts Rinehart
The white baluster rail is matched by a handrail and supported by half a matching newel post; wherever the cornice breaks, it turns against itself.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore
Stiffly upstanding on each chief baluster, Absently gaze the historical griffins, Plunged in their silent and deep meditation.
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
