bolster

bolster is a 7-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
2. noun. A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
3. noun. Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
4. noun. A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
5. noun. A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
6. noun. Anything used to prevent chafing.
7. noun. A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
8. noun. A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
9. noun. The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
10. noun. the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
11. noun. That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
12. noun. The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
13. noun. The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
14. noun. A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
15. transitive verb. To support with a bolster or pillow.
16. transitive verb. To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
17. noun. a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
18. verb. support and strengthen

    "bolster morale"

19. verb. add padding to

    "pad the seat of the chair"

    Synonyms: pad

20. verb. prop up with a pillow or bolster

Synonyms

pad

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bolster:

bolters, lobster

Common word forms

bolsters, bolstered, bolsterer, bolstering

Words from these letters

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