Bannister vs. Banister

same as banister.

English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)

a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

The handrail on the side of a staircase.

One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.

To construct a banister

To act as a banister

A baluster.

The balustrade of a staircase. Formerly used in this sense mostly in the plural, now mostly in the singular.

Example: ‘He struggled to ascend the pulpit stairs, holding hard on the banisters. Sir W. Scott.’;

a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

the structure formed by the uprights and handrail at the side of a staircase

Example: ‘he vaulted the banister’; ‘she peered over the banisters’;

a single upright at the side of a staircase

Example: ‘I stuck my head between the banisters’;