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What is the noun for stanchion?

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stanchion
  1. A vertical pole, post, or support.
  2. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.”
stanch
  1. That which stanches or checks a flow.
  2. A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
stancher
  1. One who, or that which, stanches or stops a flow.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He saw his son Kit more than once or twice in those days, and Kit appeared to be the stancher patriot of the two.”
      “We had learned to understand each other well, and no man ever had a stancher comrade than I had in Mishka Pavloff.”
      “The wish was only increased when the first Maid of the Mist was superseded by the new and stancher one.”
stanchness
  1. The quality or state of being stanch.
stanchel
stanching
  1. (obsolete) A stanchion.
stanchings
  1. plural of stanching
stanchions
stanchels
  1. plural of stanchel
stanchers
  1. plural of stancher
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