Fellow accepts books have a stand (6)
I believe the answer is:
gantry
'a stand' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'fellow accepts books' is the wordplay.
'fellow' becomes 'gary' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'accepts' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'books' becomes 'NT' (abbreviation for New Testament).
'gary' enclosing 'nt' is 'GANTRY'.
'have' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gantry that I've seen before include "Bridge-like overhead structure, supporting cameras etc" , "Support for a travelling crane" , "Signal support" , "Support for overhead work" , "Light bridge-like framework for supporting crane" .)