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 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 E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
The public fancy fastened upon that figure of a smiling woman, "awful pretty, but with something scaring about her," leaning over the baluster to laugh, "I won't hurt him!"
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
The upper windows of these towers differ little from the Anglo-Saxon, except in that the two lights are separated by a shaft or short column in place of the rounded baluster.
From Cathedral Cities of England by George Gilbert
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