different between banister vs ganister

English

Alternative forms

• bannister

Etymology

Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæn?st?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æn?st?(?)

Noun

banister (plural banisters)

1. The handrail on the side of a staircase.
2. One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.

Translations

See also

• newel
• balustrade

Verb

banister (third-person singular simple present banisters, present participle banistering, simple past and past participle banistered)

1. To construct a banister
2. To act as a banister

Anagrams

• Bainters, barniest

English

Alternative forms

• gannister

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn?st?(?)/

Noun

ganister (countable and uncountable, plural ganisters)

1. A hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.
   • 1991,, Town of Claysburg - Refractories Company Town , Historic American Buildings Survey, page 2:

     Like those in southern Huntingdon County, the ridges of southern Blair County were often covered with ganister.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, astringe, gantries, granites, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings