pedestal

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2. 2
   A place of reverence or honor.
3. 3
   A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4. 4
   A pillow block; a low housing.
5. 5
   An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
6. 6
   a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
7. 7
   A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
8. 8
   The measured value when no input signal is given.
9. 9
   The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
10. 10
    The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.

Verb

1. 1
   To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.