pedestal
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Is pedestal a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.Examples: "He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her."; "But India is also where the Mahatma may have fallen furthest from the pedestal."figuratively
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. (machining) 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.
Definition source: Wiktionary