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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of stanchion.

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Examples

  • On the left, a stanchioned flat-screen monitor shows the drummer pounding away in the grave.

    Familiarity Does Little to Excite Peter Plagens 2011

  • And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat.

    The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Morgan Robertson 1888

  • The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound.

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

  • The ballast, concrete cement, was stanchioned down securely.

    Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

  • But the Lady Castlewood went back from him, putting back her hood, and leaning against the great stanchioned door which the gaoler had just closed upon them.

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

  • In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.

    The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.

    The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side -- all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck.

    The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

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