newel

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail

Newel in a sentence

We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.

1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser He was so enamoured with the newel.

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