baluster
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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
While descending the steps, he would now and then hold fast to the baluster as if to support himself.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
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 Harley Granville-Barker
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 Walter Crum Watson
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