Pedestal

1. n. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
2. n. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.
3. n. A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4. n. A pillow block; a low housing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.