The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PEDESTAL
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More clues leading to the result PEDESTAL
- Base established — cycle around it?
- At Leeds ground parking initially gets support
- Speed after crashing? Most of story provides support for figure
- Pet’s lead trips foot
- . Ringing about daughter in Paris is to provide support
- Set out to break part of bike stand
- Fashion dept sale raised support
- Paid Steel lousily? Independent‘s ignored column’s support
- Editor revised tales after quiet support
- Raised support, quietly elated about recruiting son
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What does PEDESTAL mean?
PEDESTAL noun- The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- A place of reverence or honor.
- A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- A pillow block; a low housing.
- (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
- To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.