bolster
IPA: bˈoʊɫstɝ
noun
- A large cushion or pillow.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A surname from German.
- A ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington, United States.
verb
- (transitive, often figurative) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
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Examples of "bolster" in Sentences
- This bolsters the sources already in the former article.
- Again, a contortion has been invented to try to bolster a case.
- In most cases the locomotive is articulated over the span bolster.
- The myriad of hominid fossils bolster the fact of human evolution.
- The corps bolstered the forces of General Bragg's Army of Tennessee.
- The key falling and the apple falling both bolster the fact of gravity.
- The office was created to bolster the effort to bring tourists to the area.
- Portions of the bolster adjacent the pockets extend above the bolster top wall.
- Battalion was dissolved and the survivors used to bolster the other battalions.
- Gregory's papacy also bolstered the power of the Church over that of the State.
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