Another word for pillar

pillar Synonyms

pillar

A column
pedestal, mast, shaft; see column 1, post 1.
A support
mainstay, dependence, guider; see support 2.

from pillar to post*

back and forth, fluctuating, vacillating; see undecided.

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There was a strong crane-post, or pillar, around which the crane revolves.
She leaned her back against a pillar and looked up at him.
A railing ran round the capital of the pillar, and a ladder enabled his disciples to take him the necessaries of life.
Botti, late director of the museum, in the neighbourhood of "Pompey's Pillar," where there is a good deal of open ground.
In the third and longest section, the line starts from a pillar erected in the Perez Rosales pass, near Lake Nahuel-Huapi, and follows the water-parting southward to the highest point of Mt.

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