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
The front door opened to a wide hall and stairway, with carved baluster and polished mahogany rail.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
Sometimes the mid-wall shaft is a baluster, turned in a lathe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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
