stanchion n Cp OED ~ sb 1 'an upright bar, stay, prop or support' for all senses.
1 Wooden upright to hold a pile of pulp-wood in place.
T 43/8-64 Your stanchion, we used to call it, would keep your wood from fallin' out over. In the spring, when they'd do the drive, all they had to do was chop off that stanchion an' there'd be cords an' cords o' wood go out on the river on its own. 1965 PETERS Gloss ~ Most commonly called 'upstands,' or, less frequently, 'uprights.' Vertical sticks to support a pile of wood, usually pulpwood.
2 The rib or frame on the inside of a dory (1971 NOSEWORTHY 249).
3 Right-angled brace forming the body of a sled and an upright at the side.
Q 67-45 On a home-made slide which the men carried their loads of wood on, there were braces coming up from the side or runner and running so far across the slide so as to brace it and make it stronger. These braces were in one piece (made of wood) and had a right-angular shape. When these were fashioned out of an old tree in this shape they were called knees but when they became part of the slide they were called stanchions.
