'Bannister' definitions:
Definition of 'Bannister'
(from WordNet)
noun
English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929) [syn: Bannister, Roger Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister]
noun
A railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling [syn: bannister, banister, balustrade, balusters, handrail]
Definition of 'bannister'
From: 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.