Term: stanchion: any vertical post or rod used as a support
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: natural resin: a plant exudate
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: freedman: a person who has been freed from slavery
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: one-upmanship: the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: proportion: the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: powder monkey: someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: interlock: a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: gempylid: snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: entellus: langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: realization: a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: germ plasm: the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes