Word Meanings - BOLSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle. 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

Additional info about word: BOLSTER

A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle. 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. (more info) OHG. bolstar, polstar, G. polster; from the same root as E. bole 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOLSTER)

• Plaster
• Palliate
• patch
• ramp
• tinker
• cobble
• bolster

Related words: (words related to BOLSTER)

• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• BOLSTERER
  A supporter.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• BOLSTERED
  1. Supported; upheld. 2. Swelled out.
• PALLIATE
  1. Covered with a mant Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. Bp. Fell.
• PATCHINGLY
  Knavishy; deceitfully.
• PATCHY
  Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
• PATCHERY
  Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. Shak.
• BOLSTER
  A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle. 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
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• TINKERLY
  After the manner of a tinker.
• PLASTERING
  1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• PATCHOULI; PATCHOULY
  A mintlike plant of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made. 2. The perfume made from this plant. Patchouly camphor , a substance homologous with and resembling borneol, found in patchouly oil.
• PLASTERWORK
  Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
• PATCHWORK
  Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.
• PLASTERER
  1. One who applies plaster or mortar. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shak. 2. One who makes plaster casts. "The plasterer doth make his figures by addition." Sir H. Wotton.
• PLASTER
  An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce
• COBBLESTONE
  A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• DISPATCHMENT
  The act of dispatching. State Trials .
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• SPATCHCOCK
  See SPITCHCOCK
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.