stancheon

'stancheon'; to fall down was to 'heel over'; to climb up was to 'go aloft'; and to walk straight, and keep one's balance when the ship was pitching over the waves, was to 'get your sea legs on.'

Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner 1856

We locked the cow in a stancheon and tied a block and tackle to the calfs front legs.

Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Yesterday on my walk I found the following on a hand-written sign taped to a stoplight stancheon:

My sister's stolen lungs gregvaneekhout 2006

And the day it's well return'd again. trapan: injure treacherously, fey: marked by fate, boun: go, stancheon: iron bar, loup: leap, twin: part

The Fire of Frendraught 1898

Each bolt started, each plate cracked, each stancheon bent by the first ball,

The life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly [pseud.] (47th regiment, New York volunteers.) 1864

My house is this moment in a state of barricade -- look at my windows, literally checkered with stancheon bars -- and as for arms, let me see, we have six blunderbusses, eight cases of pistols, four muskets, two carbines, with a variety of side arms, amounting to a couple of dozen.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831