Bannister

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Banister \Ban"is*ter\, n. [A corruption of baluster.]
     1. A baluster.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (sing. or pl.) The balustrade of a staircase. Formerly
        used in this sense mostly in the plural, now mostly in the


        singular. [Also spelled {bannister}.]
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
              He struggled to ascend the pulpit stairs, holding
              hard on the banisters.                --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bannister \bannister\ n.
     same as {banister}.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Bannister
       n 1: English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a
            mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929) [syn: {Roger
            Bannister}, {Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister}]
       2: a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent
          people from falling [syn: {banister}, {balustrade}, {balusters},
           {handrail}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Bannister, MI
    Zip code(s): 48807