newel
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
newel (plural newels)
- (architecture) A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.
- (architecture) A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.
- 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 238:
- We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.
- 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 238:
- (central pillar of a staircase spiral) spindle
newel (plural newels)
- (obsolete) A novelty; a new thing.
- 1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser
- He was so enamoured with the newel.
- 1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser
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