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A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide stability or support.

Handrails are commonly used while ascending or descending stairways and escalators in order to prevent injurious falls.

Handrails are typically supported by posts or mounted directly to walls.

A newel, also called a central pole or support column, is the central supporting pillar of a spiral staircase.

It can also (usually as "newel post") refer to an upright post that supports the handrail of a stair banister.

In stairs having straight flights it is the principal post at the foot of the staircase, but it can also be used for the intermediate posts on landings and at the top of a staircase.

Although its primary purpose is structural, newels have long been adorned with decorative trim and designed with different architectural styles.

A baluster— also called spindle or stair stick—is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, a form cut from a rectangular or square plank, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase.

A stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs, or simply stairs is a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps.

Stairs may be straight, round, or may consist of two or more straight pieces connected at angles.

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees, and other woody plants.

It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers which are strong in tension embedded in a of lignin which resists compression.

Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs.

In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves.

It also conveys water and nutrients between the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots.

Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber.