baluster

This hall the same colour,” said I, “with the rails of the baluster in the cream white of the trim.

Fred was quite willing, for his curiosity was excited; so, seizing the baluster with both hands, he gave it a twist.

The young girl became yet whiter; a moment she clung to the baluster; then started to descend the stairs.

He grasped the baluster-rail, and stood wildly clinging, like a shipwrecked sailor to a mast.

She had partly descended the staircase and she stopped, leaning against the baluster and smiling up at him.