bolster

bolster has 20 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
• n.. A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Anything used to prevent chafing.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
• n.. The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
• n.. the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
• n.. That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
• n.. The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.