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1.nounThe base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2.nounA place of reverence or honor."He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her."
3.nounA casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4.nounA pillow block; a low housing.
5.noun(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.noun(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.