Before attempting to dehorn the animal, it should be securely controlled by ropes in a stanchion or by casting.
I once removed an acorn from the ear of a cow that had been roaming in the woods; also pieces of wood from a stanchion may be lodged accidentally in the ear.
He leaned dejectedly, or it might be patiently, but, either way, motionless as a stanchion against the companion casing, his soft flapping hat and the shoulders of a loose coat showing just above the woodwork.
He laid hold of a handy stanchion to steady himself, but he saw Andie, unsupported, go sliding easily, gently, irresistibly to the bulkhead behind them.
Unable to utter a sound the Greek was choked into insensibility, relieved of his knife and pistol, and gently dropped between an empty signal-locker and the stanchion rails.
Her fo'c'sle stanchion rails were lined with human beings, each prisoner being secured by the simple device of a cord passing through the links of a chain and the ends fastened to the prisoners thumbs.
He was leaning on the stanchion still, and staring at the dark water.
Upon receiving the weapon, I placed its muzzle close to the cut on the stanchion and fired.
Francesco was on patrol that night; but my English accent soon assured him that I was no contrabbandiere, and he too leaned against the stanchion and told me his short story.
I leaned against an iron stanchion and longed for the sea's message.
I was due at the second table, and I didn't go as far forward as the stanchion she was holding on to.
I saw Virginia Crane clinging desperately to her stanchion beside the light switches.
The old man stood with his arms extended from stanchion to stanchion, a perfect tower of strength and determination.
There was a terrible grating sound; the last stanchion was grinding in its wooden shoe; it was sliding faster!
The whole ship, therefore, practically rested on a single stout stanchion toward which Barry had already turned.
The window was perhaps twenty feet from the ground, but the stanchion was three feet below the window.
It was a good height from the ground; there was no stanchion or projection in the wall, and it seemed impossible that a man could get his shoulders through the opening.
Once he became aware of that sound he could no longer sleep for listening to it; and at last he sprang out of bed, and leaning out of the window lifted the sign-board off the stanchion and into his bedroom.
He bent a leg around a stanchion to hold his lean black frame in place and beat one fist softly into the palm of another.
She took hold of a stanchion and nodded, all at once grown serious.
She was leaning heavily against a stanchion crooning to the baby.
He went floundering this way and that, but holding the baby in one arm and dragging the mother with the other, he held on until he bumped into a stanchion in the dark.
The opening in the side of the manger is a stanchion to hold them steady.
Gripping the stanchion rails he lent over the stern, his eyes fixed upon the two cylindrical objects far beneath him: the abandoned sections of his beloved airship.
Giving the alarm to his companion Dacres dashed up the metal ladder leading to the promenade deck, pushed back the hinged flap, and, crawling on his hands and knees, gained the stanchion rails on the lee side of the steeply shelving platform.
They are then securely fastened with a tie plate or clamp which passes over the end of the strut and is bound firmly against the surface of the frame piece by the eye bolts of the stanchion sockets.
These sockets, as the name implies, provide a receptacle in which the end of a stanchion is firmly held, and have flanges with holes for eye-bolts which hold them firmly to the frame pieces, and also serve to hold the guy wires.
I'll let you out the line," taking a turn with the rope around a stanchion near the wall, "and then come down myself.
Beneath a sudden, savage assault, the door shook; yet engrossed at the line, every muscle strained, the man at the stanchionheeded not.
Francesco was on patrol that night; but my English accent soon assured him that I was no contrabbandiere, and he too leaned against the stanchion and told me his short story.
To hand-rail and stanchion we clung, and finally as we saw the end approaching, snapped the buckles of our harness to the rings at her sides.
I threw the bow hard up, dragged the speed lever to its last notch, and clutching a stanchion with one hand and the steering-wheel with the other hung on like grim death and consigned my soul to its author.
The second officer, outside on the bridge, had to cling to a stanchion for his life.
He leaned over, fired a couple of shots downwards at random, seized the pole, and lashed it to a stanchion with a loose rope end, a remnant of one of the awnings.
The upper end of an entering-rope is rove through an eye in the iron stanchion at the gangway; it is walled, crowned, and otherwise ornamentally fitted.
A kind of iron dog fixed at the middle of a wooden beam, stretching across a craft's stern, from one quarter stanchion to the other; on it the mainsheet-block travels.
A stanchion or sustaining prop to the lower beams.
Every man on deck was clinging to stanchion and rail in momentary danger of being swept overboard.
The blow on his head had been a cruel one, the iron stanchion having been struck by a projectile from one of the seven-inch guns and bent double.
The stanchion to which the lad bad been clinging suddenly doubled over, striking him on the head, felling him to the deck.
She pulled first at one strand and then at the other, but one end was tied to the stanchion and the other to her neck, and she could find no loose end to draw through.
Mr Stanchion from aft; `what's the matter ahead--what are you making all that row about?
I reeled, and caught hold of a stanchion and saved myself.
