pedestal

/ˈpɛdɪstəl/

noun

  1. 1

    The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

  2. 2

    A place of reverence or honor.

    “He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.”
  3. 3

    A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

  4. 4

    A pillow block; a low housing.

  5. 5

    (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

  6. 6

    (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

verb

  1. 1

    To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

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