pillar

A slender, freestanding, vertical support; a column.

Such a structure or one similar to it used for decoration.

One who occupies a central or responsible position.

To support or decorate with pillars or a pillar.

(from pillar to post) From one place to another; hither and thither.

In ship-building, a column which supports a deck-beam in the interior of a vessel.

A column; a columnar mass of any form, often composed, or having the appearance of being composed, of several shafts engaged in a central core, as is frequent in medieval architecture: by architects often distinguished from column, inasmuch as it may be of any shape in section, and is not subordinated to the rules of classic architecture. See also cuts under latand column.

A support or supporter; one who or that which sustains or upholds.

The upright and supporting part of something, as of a table having but one support, or of a candlestick.