pedestalled

/P EH1 D AH0 S T AH0 L D/
noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    (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.

  5. 5

    (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.

  6. 6

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

  7. 7

    (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.

  8. 8

    (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.

  9. 9

    (photography) An item upon which television cameras are mounted.

  10. 10

    The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.

  11. 11

    (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.

verb
  1. 1

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