Stanchion
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Stanchion (Fr. étançon, a wooden post), an architectural term applied to the upright iron bars in windows which pass through the eyes of the saddle bars or horizontal irons to steady the lead lights.
The French call the latter traverses, the stanchions montants, and the whole arrangement armature. Stanchions frequently finish with ornamental heads forged out of the iron.
Stanchion is also the term given to the metal mounts securing the headrest to the seat in a car, and, in association football and other goal-based sports, horizontal or diagonal extensions to the goalposts which prevent the goalnet from drooping.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
