PEDESTAL

Pedestal

Pedestal or plinth is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.

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pedestal

Noun

  1. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands.
  2. A place of reverence or honor.
    He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
  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. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
  6. 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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