Pedestal
WordNet
noun
(1) A support or foundation
"The base of the lamp"
(2) An architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
(3) A position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
"They put him on a pedestal"
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Etymology
From piédestal, from piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stall "stand") "footstall".
Noun
- The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of {Column}.
- (Railroad Cars) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- (Mach.) A pillow block; a low housing.
- (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.
- Pedestal coil (steam Heating), a group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, -- used in a radiator.