pedestals

Noun

pedestal (plural pedestals)

1. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
   • The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
2. (figuratively) 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. (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.

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