newel

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnjuː.əl/    美 /ˈnu.əl/|/ˈnju.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.; A central pillar around which some types of spiral staircase are spiralled.
  2. A novelty; a new thing. obsolete
    — 1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser He was so enamoured with the newel.
  3. Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.; A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.
    — We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.

词形变化

newels plural newels plural

词汇关系

衍生词
neweled newelled

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English nowel, *newel, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of noil and noyau.
词源 2
From new + -el, modelled after novel (“new, original”).
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