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Definition of Bolster
1. Verb. Support and strengthen. "Bolster morale"
2. Noun. A pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows.
3. Verb. Prop up with a pillow or bolster.
4. Verb. Add padding to. "Pad the seat of the chair"
Definition of Bolster
1. n. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
2. v. t. To support with a bolster or pillow.
Definition of Bolster
1. Noun. A large cushion or pillow. ¹
2. Verb. To brace, reinforce, secure, or support. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bolster
1. to support [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: support
Medical Definition of Bolster
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1. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; generally laid under the pillows. "And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets." (Shak)
2. 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. "This arm shall be a bolster for thy head." (Gay)
3. Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
4. A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
5. 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. Anything used to prevent chafing.
6. 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.
7. A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
8. The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bolster
Literary usage of Bolster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1906)
"Truck bolster Guide Dead Block. Block. Distance Block. ... The term body transom
is sometimes applied to the bolster, but incorrectly, as this term applies ..."
2. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1903)
"A body bolster is sometimes called body transom, or simply transom, ... A part
analogous to a body bolster, and frequently called the body bolster, ..."
3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"The detail of (c) with the upper post resting on a hardwood bolster is the best of
... The vertical bolster blocks are set into the lower post and bolted, ..."
4. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"In (6) the bottom of the upper post will crush the fibers of the upper side of
the girder, and a worse condition will prevail under the bolster, unless the ..."
5. Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery by G. Roger Edwards (1975)
"The bolster krater,32 an invention of Hellenistic times, is named from the form
... The bolster krater is evidently a functional replacement for Classical ..."
6. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1909)
"58 and Body bolster, the component parts of which are indicated by numbers ...
‘Wit Ii the cross-tie timber or “Needle Beams” and the body bolster on the ..."
7. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1911)
"58 and "Body bolster, the component parts of which are indicated by ... With the
cross-tie timber or "Needle Beams" and the body bolster on the under side, ..."
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