pedestal
/ˈpɛdɪstəl/ noun C2- The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- A place of reverence or honor. · He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
- A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- A pillow block; a low housing.
- An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
- A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
- The measured value when no input signal is given.
Plural pedestals
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It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.
On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
“Nay, madame; I would place each of these heroes on his right pedestal—that of Robespierre on his scaffold in the Place Louis Quinze; that of Napoleon on the column of the Place Vendôme.
He saw that he was on the highest point of the island,—a statue on this vast pedestal of granite, nothing human appearing in sight, while the blue ocean beat against the base of the island, and covered it with a fringe of foam.
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