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| pedestal | |
| 1. n. Piédestal. | |
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| pedestal | |
| 1. n. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp. |  |
| 2. n. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor. | |
| He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her. | |
| 3. n. (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box. | |
| 4. n. (machining) A pillow block; a low housing. | |
| 5. n. (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. n. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator. | |
| 7. v. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal. | |
