pedestal

An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.

A support or foundation.

A position of high regard or adoration.

To place on or provide with a pedestal.

To place on a pedestal; support as a pedestal.

In bridge-building, that portion of an abutment or pier which furnishes the immediate support for an end of a bridge truss or girder.

That which serves as a foot or support, particularly for a piece of sculpture, a monument, or other work of art.

In machinery, the standards of a pillow-block, holding the brasses in which the shaft turns.

In a railroad-car, a casting of inverted-U shape bolted to the truck-frame to hold in place the journal-box of the axle, which rises and falls in the pedestal with the collapse and expansion of the springs. (See cut under car-truck.) Called in England an axle-guard or horn-plate.

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.