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Newel post

noun
1.
The post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail.  Synonym: newel.






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"Newel post" Quotes from Famous Books



... him up good. Malcolm had doubts, but he was willing to try. William was alert, because as many another "newsy" he had known these boys in the park; so when the rush came, a movement too quick for untrained eyes to follow swung him around a newel post, while both boys bumping, screaming, rolled to the first landing and rebounded from a wall harder than they. When no one hastened at their screams to pick them up, they arose fighting each other. The tutor passed and James tried to kick him, merely because he could. He was not there either, ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter



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