pedestal
/หpษdษชstษl/noun
- 1
The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- 2
A place of reverence or honor.
โHe has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.โ
- 3
A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- 4
A pillow block; a low housing.
- 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
(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
verb
- 1
To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
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