Definition of Banisters

1. Noun. (plural of banister) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banisters

1. banister [n] - See also: banister

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banisters

baning
banish
banish'd
banishable
banished
banisher
banishers
banishes
banishing
banishment
banishments
banisht
banister
banistered
banisterine
banisters (current term)
banjax
banjaxed
banjaxes
banjaxing
banjo
banjo enclosure
banjo enclosures
banjo eyes
banjo hit
banjo hits
banjo hitter
banjo hitters
banjo ukelele
banjoed

Literary usage of Banisters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"... animal leaping over the banisters to get out of our way, and to escape through the garden door ; no, of this piteous, this actual spectacle, ..."

2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1894)
"In a subsequent part of the will he directs that his son Robert shall have the banisters, the debts and portions being first paid. ..."

3. L.R.A. as Authorities: Including the Citations of Each Case as Precedent, (1 by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court (1914)
"... after injury banisters were placed on both sides of bridge was properly rejected; Louisville & XR Co. v. Barnwell, 131 Ga. 792, 63 SE 501, ..."

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