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Railing or railings may refer to: Railings (horse), a racehorse; Guard rail, a structure blocking an area from access Cable railings, a type of guard rail; Handrail, a structure designed to provide support on or near a staircase; Grab bar, a structure to provide support elsewhere, for instance in a bathroom or kitchen
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "baluster" is derived through the French: balustre, from Italian: balaustro, from balaustra, "pomegranate flower" [from a resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open flower (illustration, below right)], [6] [7] from Latin balaustrium, from Greek βαλαύστριον (balaustrion).
The earliest wooden rails were fixed to wooden sleepers by pegs through holes in the rail, or by nails. By the 18th century, cast iron rails had come into use, and also had holes in the rail itself to allow them to be fixed to a support.
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