pillar

1. 1

   A large post, often used as supporting architecture.

2. 2

   Something resembling such a structure.

   • a pillar of smoke
3. 3

   An essential part of something that provides support.figuratively

   • He's a pillar of the community.
4. 4

   A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.

   • two laye-men secular eache of theym holdynge a pillar In their hondes, steade of a mace
5. 5

   The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

6. 6

   The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.

7. 7

   A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.

syn. column · sile

1. 1

   To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.transitive

   • Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth
   • We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides