Stair rail
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Stair rail
A bar of wood or other material that connects the balusters on a stair.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture Copyright © 2012, 2002, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved
rail
rail, 3
1. A bar of wood or other material passing from one post or other support to another; a hand support along a stairway.
2. A structure consisting of rails and their sustaining posts, balusters, or pillars, and constituting an enclosure or a line of division, as a
balcony rail.
3. A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling as a
door rail, or in the framework of a window sash.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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They say they found the bug on the door handles of public toilets, ward door plates, lift plates,
stair rails and loo taps.
Steel
stair rails and exposed ducts hark back to the original detailing.
This can include the fitting of
stair rails, external and internal grab rails, additional power sockets, smoke detectors and door safety chains.
Bull-nose terra cotta tiles rim the pool,
stair rails, and planters.
In the new ad Shannon, who has a hip deformity, uses his crutches to move speedily from shop to shop, using skateboards and
stair rails to aid his flow.
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