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handrail

noun as in balustrade

Strong matches

noun as in banister

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“He stands outside, in the dark London night, sobbing and unsteady, the handrail only a few feet away. And below that is the cold hard pavement,” Henry writes in her book.

Street skateboarding courses resemble those of an urban street with obstacles such as handrails and stairs.

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They added that the "development offers extensive yet discreet accessible features, providing disabled guests – particularly wheelchair users – with a high degree of independence" as "clever landscaping removes the need for ramps and obvious handrails".

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“He wanted to take the stand, but then he saw it was three steps without a handrail,” Jimmy Fallon joked on Tuesday.

She ran down the stairs so fast, she almost tripped twice and needed to grab onto the handrail to keep from wiping out.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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