stanchionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance (“a stay, a prop”), from Latin stāns (“standing”), present participle of stō.

発音

• enPR: stănʹshən, stänʹshən, (英国発音) IPA: /ˈstanʃən/, /ˈstɑːnʃən/
• enPR: stănʹshən, (米国発音) IPA: /ˈstænʃən/

名詞

stanchion (plural stanchions)

1. A vertical pole, post, or support.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 149:

     The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.

   • 1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 10:

     You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365:

     Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the Street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, praticing.

   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 268:

     He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.

2. A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

派生語

• barrack stanchion

動詞

stanchion (third-person singular simple present stanchions, present participle stanchioning, simple past and past participle stanchioned)

1. To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
2. To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.

参照

• “stanchion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.