BOLSTER Word Analysis

A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.

A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.

(vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.

A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.

A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.

The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.

The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.

The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

(architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.

(military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

(figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.

(transitive, often figurative) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.