shaft pillar
21pillar — I. noun Etymology: Middle English piler, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila Date: 13th century 1. a. a firm upright support for a superstructure ; post b. a usually ornamental column or shaft; especially one standing… …
22pillar — n 1. column, upright support, caryatid, atlas, telamon; Archit. columna caelata, pilaster, colonnade, peristyle; post, shaft, pier, pole, pylon; standard, stalagmite, spine, cylinder; Naut. mast, spar. 2. chief supporter, mainstay, backbone,… …
23shaft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. arrow, spear; beam, ray; handle; bar, axle; thill; column, pillar; well, pit. See arms, depth, support. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Rod] Syn. stem, handle, bar, cylinder, pole; see also rod 1 . 2. [A… …
24pillar — Synonyms and related words: antenna tower, arcade, arch, atlas, backbone, baluster, balustrade, banister, barbican, barrel, barrow, base, bedrock, belfry, bell tower, bole, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, campanile, caryatid, cask, cenotaph,… …
25shaft — ʃæft /ʃɑËft n. any vertical passageway; slender body of an arrow or spear; pole, rod; beam, ray; slender handle; column, long cylindrical pillar; long revolving bar used to transfer motion or torque to gears or other parts (Machinery) v.… …
26pillar — n. 1. Column, columnar mass, pier, shaft, post. 2. Prop, support, supporter, maintainer, upholder …
27pillar press — noun : a punch press with a frame of two parallel uprights through which the driving shaft passes and within which the slide works …
28From pillar to post — Pillar Pil lar, n. [OE. pilerF. pilier, LL. pilare, pilarium, pilarius, fr. L. pila a pillar. See {Pile} a heap.] 1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column …
29Line shaft — Shaft Shaft, n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. ????, ????, a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. {Scape} …
30Room and pillar — (also called bord and pillar) is a mining system in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane while leaving pillars of untouched material to support the roof overburden leaving open areas or rooms underground. It is usually… …
