bannister, banister, balustrade, balusters, handrail
(noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
banister (plural banisters)
The handrail on the side of a staircase.
One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.
banister (third-person singular simple present banisters, present participle banistering, simple past and past participle banistered)
To construct a banister
To act as a banister
• Bainters, barniest
Banister (plural Banisters)
A occupational surname for a maker of baskets.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Banister is the 10260th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3141 individuals. Banister is most common among White (84.34%) and Black/African American (10.28%) individuals.
• Bainters, barniest
Source: Wiktionary
Ban"is*ter, n. Etym: [Formerly also banjore and banjer; corrupted from bandore, through negro slave pronunciation.]
Definition: A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
