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

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

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

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 Auerbach, Berthold