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▪ I. stanchion, n.|ˈstɑːnʃən, -æ-|
Forms: 4–6 stanchon (5 stanzon), 6 stancon; 5–6 staunchon (5 stauncyon, -son, stawncion), 9 stauncheon, -ion (Sc. -en); 6 stancion, -cyon, 6 stanchinge, 7–9 stantion, 9 stanchient, stantient, 8–9 dial. stansion; 7 Sc. stenchen, 8, 9 stancheon, 7– stanchion.
[a. OF. estanchon, estançon (mod.F. étançon), f. estance prop:—popular L. *stantia: see stance n.]
1. An upright bar, stay, prop or support.
a. gen.
[1343in Archæologia LXIV. 148 In ij hominibus facientibus lacch' et stanchons ad idem.] 1433–4in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 53 Et iiij peciis pro stanzones. 1530Palsgr. 275/2 Staunchon a proppe, estancon. 1532in Bayley Tower Lond. i. App. p. xxij, A larder hous..wt planks rownde by the walls, and stancions wt pyns and hoks to hange the flesshe on. 1553Brende Q. Curtius A a iij, Least the earth washed upon with the raine might fall altogether, there were stanchinges of timbre putte betwixte to staie the whole worke. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 181 The posts or stancheons by which the building is supported. 1791Smeaton Edystone L. (1793) §97 The iron stanchions and particularities of each step. 1865Morn. Star 3 Feb., Huge piles of balks were hurled with terrific violence from the stanchions which supported and held them in their places. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stanchion. 2. (Machinery) a principal post of a frame; especially one giving lateral support.
b. spec. of a window. Also see quot. 1836.
1472–3Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 247 Pro factura vij stawncions ferri pro nova fenestra ad scaccariam Elemos., vij d. 1530in J. Croft Excerpta Ant. (1797) 16, vi Stancons for a bay Window. 1565Richmond Wills (Surtees) 178, j stancyon of iron and a barre. 1609Bible (Douay) 2 Kings i. 2 Ochozias fel through the stanchions of his upper chamber. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxiii, The stancheons on the window of the strong room..are wasted to pieces. 1836Parker Gloss. Archit. (1850) I. 444 Stanchion, the upright iron bar between the mullions of a window, screen, &c... The name is also sometimes applied to mullions, and apparently to the quarters or studs of wooden partitions. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Pref., An antiquated Manor house of Elizabethan architecture, with its gable ends, stone stanchions [etc.].
c. Shipbuilding.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 186 Everie shipe caries..stancions for fights. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. vii. 32 The Roufe-trees..are..supported by Stantions that rest vpon the..Decke. 1703W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 19 To keep the Boat thus with the Head to the Shore,..there are two strong Stantions set up in the Boat. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Stanchion, a sort of small pillar of wood or iron used for various purposes in a ship; as to support the decks, the quarter-rails, the nettings, the awnings, &c. 1805Shipwright's Vade-M. 134 Stantions or Stantients. 1835Marryat Jacob Faithful ix, At last the captain crawled up, and clung by the stanchions. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 152 Stanchions or Stanchients.
d. Mining.
1855Leifchild Cornwall 154 An upper joist..resting on two lateral upright posts, or stanchions. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 237.
e. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stanchion. 5. The vertical bars of a stall for cattle.
†2. A case for an inkhorn. Obs.
1404–5Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 400 Pro j stanchon' pro incausto pro scaccario, 18 d. c1440Promp. Parv. 473/1 Staunchon, to set yn an ynke horne, forulus.
3. attrib. and Comb.: as stanchion-bar, stanchion-post, stanchion-rope, stanchion-waste (= -rope waste); stanchion-gun, a gun mounted in a boat for wild-fowl shooting.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §239 Window frames..with one-inch iron *stanchion bars.
1815P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 140 Building a new canoe and *stanchion gun. 1889A. Chapman Bird-Life Borders Pref., A long apprenticeship to rod, fowling-piece and stanchion-gun.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stanchion. 5. The vertical bars of a stall for cattle. In the example, the *stanchion-post is pivoted so as to swing horizontally.
1750T. R. Blanckley Naval Expos. 136 *Stantion Ropes reeved through the Eyes of the Stantions.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 131 Ropes..*Stancheon Waste, worn.
▪ II. stanchion, v.|ˈstɑːnʃən, -æ-|
[f. stanchion n.]
1. trans. To provide with stanchions, strengthen or support with stanchions.
1528[see stanchioning vbl. n. below]. 1802Trans. Soc. Arts XX. 289 The thwarts are firmly stanchioned. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi. §70. 202 Cramped and stanchioned into such weight of grisly wall, as might..beat back the utmost storm of battle. 1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 1335 And see his system that's all true, except The one weak place that's stanchioned by a lie! 1907H. Trench New Poems 4, I think some arm of the sea-gods Framed us her stormy frame, And ribbed and beamed and stanchioned her.
2. To fasten to, or by a stanchion.
1884Allen New Amer. Farm Bk. 380 The cows tied, or stanchioned, as in their winter feeding.
Hence ˈstanchioning vbl. n.
1528MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Paid to a tyler for stanchonyng dobyng & vnderpynnyng of the store house. |