[f. STANCHION sb.]
1. trans. To provide with stanchions, strengthen or support with stanchions.
1528. [see vbl. sb.].
1802. Trans. Soc. Arts, XX. 289. The thwarts are firmly stanchioned.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. § 70. 202. Cramped and stanchioned into such weight of grisly wall, as might … beat back the utmost storm of battle.
1871. Browning, Pr. Hohenst., 1335. And see his system that’s all true, except The one weak place that’s stanchioned by a lie!
1907. H. Trench, New Poems, 4. I think some arm of the sea-gods Framed us her stormy frame, And ribbed and beamed and stanchioned her.
2. To fasten to, or by a stanchion.
1884. Allen, New Amer. Farm Bk., 380. The cows tied, or stanchioned, as in their winter feeding.
Hence Stanchioning vbl. sb.
1528. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb., Paid to a tyler for stanchonyng dobyng & vnderpynnyng of the store house.
