Usually means: Supportive column, often in railings.
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  1. baluster: Merriam-Webster
  2. baluster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. baluster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. baluster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. baluster: Vocabulary.com
  6. baluster: Wordnik
  7. baluster: Wiktionary
  8. baluster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. baluster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. baluster: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Baluster, baluster: Dictionary.com
  12. baluster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Baluster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Baluster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. baluster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. baluster: Rhymezone
  17. Baluster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. baluster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. baluster: FreeDictionary.org
  20. baluster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. baluster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. baluster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. baluster: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BALUSTER: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. baluster: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Baluster: Castle Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Masonry dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Baluster: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (baluster)

noun:  (architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister. [from 17th c.]

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