A suspended cymbal is any single cymbal played with a stick or beater rather than struck against another cymbal. Common abbreviations used are "sus. cym.," or "sus. cymb.".
Classical suspended cymbal
A cymbal stand is a stand designed primarily to support a suspended cymbal in a drum kit or percussion section.
A Simon Phillips drum kit using straight, boom and multiple boom stands.
Unnamed drummer, 1939, note the nearest three cymbals have no tilit buttons, upper felts or wingnuts
Louis Bellson, 1952, using tilted cymbals secured with upper felts and wingnuts