balusters's Usage Examples:

Many decks just have the very traditional wood balusters and railings.

Open timber frame with pierced balusters for window mullions in the side walls.

This sturdy staircase offers strong steel balusters and a stylish handrail designed to adapt to any situation.

wooden balusters were usually turned, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fretwork designs were popular.

This is surrounded by an imposing balustrade with twisted balusters, similar to a set of communion rails.

The altar rails have twisted balusters of late seventeenth-century date, and the altar table belongs to the earlier part of the same century.

The communion rails with turned balusters are from 17th century.

They generally have moulded rails or balusters, and rich friezes of pierced and repousse work, the whole being often thickly plated with silver.

33) upon the protruding end, F, of the rod, transmitted to the still undrawn part, E, squeezes the yielding metal of the rod against the hard unyielding die, C. As when a half-opened umbrella is thrust ferrule-foremost between the balusters of a staircase, so when the rod is drawn forward, its yielding metal is folded and forced backwards and centrewards by the resistance of the unyielding die, and thus it is reduced in diameter and simultaneously lengthened proportionally, without material change of volume or density.

The general construction of wooden screens is close panelling beneath, on which stands screen-work composed of slender turned balusters or regular wooden mullions, supporting tracery more or less rich with cornices, crestings, 'c., and often painted in brilliant colours and gilded.

Synonyms:

handrail, banister, balustrade, balcony, rail, bannister, barrier, baluster, railing,

Antonyms:

walk, cheer,