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pillarn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French piler; Latin pilare. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman piler, pilere, pilerre, peler, pelir, pieler (also pillier ) and Old French, Middle French piler, piller (Old French, Middle French, French pilier , with suffix substitution) pillar (11th cent.), support, defender (early 13th cent.), essential component of something ensuring stability (mid 13th cent.) and its etymon post-classical Latin pilare (late 11th cent. in a British source, from 12th cent. in continental sources; also pilarium , pilarius (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources)) < classical Latin pīla pillar (see pile n.6) + -āre -ar suffix1 (compare -ar suffix2). Compare Old Occitan pilar (c1150), Catalan pilar (14th cent.), Spanish pilar (c1200). Compare also Middle Dutch pilāre (Dutch pilaar), pīler, pīlere (Dutch pijler), Old Saxon pīliri (Middle Low German pīler, piiler, pyller, pīlār, pīlāre, pīlre), Old High German pfīlāri (Middle High German phīlære, phīler, German Pfeiler), also ( < Middle Low German) Old Icelandic pílarr, Old Swedish pilare (Swedish pelare).In sense 4a probably after Galatians 2:9. In sense 4b after 1 Timothy 3:15. 1. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > pillar > [noun] the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rocky peak > [noun] c1180 Notes to Hexateuch (Claud. B.iv) in A. N. Doane & W. P. Stoneman (2011) 32 On twam columban, þæt bið twean pilires, in h[w]æder æl, in þan lande of Syria. c1225 Worcester Glosses to Old Eng. Homilies in (1928) 52 24 Swerum : piler. c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) 24 in (1885) 8 117 (MED) A wel gret cheyn þai had don drawe Ouer þe hauen of acres fers & was y fastned in to pilers. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 171 Þe vndirpartie is vndirsette wiþ pilers and postys þat it may nouȝt falle. c1450 (c1350) (Bodl.) (1929) 1140 Alixandre picht a pelyr of marbyl þere. c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 779 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 245 In myddis wes a pillare, þat þe charge of þe kirk suld bere. 1535 Gen. xix. E His wife..was turned in to a pillar of salt. 1590 E. Spenser ii. iii. sig. P2v Like two faire marble pillours..Which doe the temple of the Gods support. 1624 H. Wotton 33 The Tuscan is a plain, massie, rural Pillar, resembling some sturdy well-limmed Labourer. 1685 J. Evelyn (1955) IV. 449 Those words in the Inscription about the Pillar..[were] erased and cut out. 1780 tr. U. von Troil 21 The most remarkable [islands] are Oransay and Columskill,..and Staffa, on account of its natural pillars. 1851 J. Ruskin I. vii. 71 All good architecture adapted to vertical support is made up of pillars. 1896 23 Oct. 2/2 Only fragmentary pillars and remnants of outlining walls..remain. 1939 No. 119. 178/2 On one of the stalactite pillars..was found a big round stone. 1995 V. Chandra (1996) 585 A huge square black building with classical pillars and scrolled cornices. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 142 Þencheð eauer inwardliche up on godes pinen..his swete bodi ibunden naked to þe harde piller. & ibeate. a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 281 Bute hwat tunge mai hit telle..Siðen bifore pilat hu þu was naket bunden faste to þe piler. a1325 (?c1300) (Cambr. Gg.1.1) 1103 (MED) Of him þei diden is clothes..A bounden him to a piler [v.r. pelare]. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 16433 (MED) To a piler þei him bonde. 1451 in A. Clark (1914) 46 My lityll cros of gold..with..a peis of the peler that ouere lorde was Skowrged opon yerin. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in (1998) I. 35 Till ane pillar thai him band. ?1533 G. Du Wes sig. Eei His precious body was tyed to the pylar by Pylate. a1639 J. Spottiswood (1655) ii. 69 Part of the pillar to which our Saviour was tied when he was scourged. c1660 J. Evelyn anno 1644 (1955) II. 246 The Pillar, or stump, at which they relate, our B: Savior was Scourged. a1701 H. Maundrell (1703) 17 The first place they visited was that of the Pillar of Flagellation. 1754 C. Thompson II. 7 A little Cell..wherein is kept the Pillar of Flagellation. 1834 Sept. 221 A phial of the Savior's blood..a fragment of the pillar at which he was scourged. 1860 26 Dec. 5/5 Jesus..scourged at the pillar or racked on the cross. 1954 26 367 To Twain, the sword is of more significance than the Pillar of Flagellation. 2004 (Nexis) 12 May 4 Rumsfeld would explain away such techniques as scourging at the pillar, crowning with thorns, [etc.]. society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > platform society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-post or tripod a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in (1818) II. 23 This same Erle of Athetelles was..lad to the polour yn the towne, and ther was he fast boundon. a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis 1015, in W. A. Craigie (1925) II. 33 That þai suld..in presone..be done Syne..On a pillar' be done of braβ And þar' thole schame for þair trespaβ. 1530 J. Palsgrave 254/1 Pyller to do justyce, estache. 1556 in J. G. Nichols (1852) 95 The same man..was betten with whyppes at the peller in Chepe at the standert. a1600 Meaning of Marriage (Sloane 1983B) in (1871) 40 Ye vold taiken it ill to me..and mad me sit on the pillar of repentance. 1646 in Z. Boyd (1855) App. p. xlii/1 That [i.e. Those] women who appear on the pillar with plaids..it shall not be esteemed a day of their appearance. 1691 in W. Macgill (1909) I. 237 Thrie treadsmen of the same town are ordered to be brought to the tron piller and to have thair eares nailed thairto. 1726 A. Ramsay II. 132 Now Tam maun face the minister, And she maun mount the pillar. 1787 R. Lewis 106 They were places of penance, or purgatorial pillars, in which the penitent was elevated. 1869 H. C. Lea 475 In 1606 we see the kirk-session of Ayr inflict the..pillar of repentance on John M'Crie. 1885 A. Edgar 290 The church ‘pillar’ was the conspicuous object. 1975 ii. 55 The pillar, the stool of repentance,..and so forth. 1993 P. Ackroyd 68 ‘You have no disease’, I replied, ‘that could not be cured at the whipping pillar.’ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > riding school > track in > post in middle of 1728 E. Chambers Pillar, in the Manage, signifies the Centre of the Volta, Ring, or Manage-Ground, round which a Horse turns; whether there be a wooden Pillar placed therein or not. 1759 W. Rider at Academy The place set apart for riding, called the Manege, has generally a pillar in the center. 1813 J. M. Good et al. (at cited word) Most..riding-schools have pillars fixed in the middle of the manage ground. society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > post- or letter-box > pillar-box 1865 J. W. Carlyle (1883) III. 255 Should it [sc. the letter] be put in the pillar to-night? 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ III. vii. 214 Just drop that in the pillar on your way home. 1885 C. M. Yonge II. i. 2 The pillar at hand was cleared at seven, and the regular post-office could not be reached in time. 1947 T. Deevy Strange Birth in 20 Mark it not ‘not known’ and throw it in the pillar beyond. 1997 (Nexis) 14 Apr. He would calmly place the betting slip in the envelope and drop it in the letter pillar. 2. c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) 108 in C. Horstmann (1887) 50 Þo iseiȝen huy gret light..a-boute one place, ase a piler stonde upriȝht.] a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 3293 A fair piler son hem on o nigt And a skie [MS askie] euere on daiges ligt. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xiii. 21 Þe Lord forsoþ went beforn hem to be schewed þe way be day in þe pylere of a clowde & be niȝt in a pyler of fyre. c1450 J. Lydgate (Sloane 2464) 705 (MED) Arystotiles was..Reysed in a pyleer wrought of ffyry levene So hih aloffte be Revelacyoun. a1475 in (1957) 58 64 Þe comyn pepyll callithe þis fyre þe brennyng pyller. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 47 in (1998) II. 107 A flaming piller glitt'ring in the skies. 1611 Joel ii. 30 Blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. View more context for this quotation c1645 W. Atkins (1994) 268 Guiding the 12 tribes of Israell out of the Egiptian slaverie with a cloude in the day and with a piller of fire in the night. 1702 T. Savery 62 Such an immense Weight as a Pillar of Water a thousand foot high. 1754 E. Young i. 44 Scripture, like the cloudy pillar which it records, is Light to the true Israelite, but Darkness to the Egyptians. 1815 J. Smith II. 51 The water..rises in the vacuum..forming a pillar of water in the air. 1877 A. Forman tr. R. Wagner 45 (stage direct.) His figure disappears; in his place a pillar of cloud is seen. 1932 W. Faulkner ii. 48 He shows her the yellow pillar of smoke standing tall and windless above the trees. 1998 16 Mar. 26/1 The severing of a gas-line riser that sent forth a pillar of fire two stories high. the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air-pressure 1843 No. 9495 A blast of atmospheric air..maintained at a pressure or pillar of upwards of 2½ lbs. on the square inch. 1857 S. B. Rogers viii. 94 The high pillar of blast at present used with smelting-furnaces..appears to be necessary, in order to penetrate into the materials in the crucible and body of the furnace. the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > imaginary support of earth or heaven a1325 (c1280) (Pepys 2344) (1927) 447 (MED) Þe sulue pyleres of heuene..And þe aungeles..shulleþ quake ffor drede. a1382 (Bodl. 959) Job xxvi. 11 Þe pileeris of heuene togidere quaken & dreden at hes bek [?a1425 Wycliffite, L.V. (Gloss.) that is, aungels that mynystren ether rulen the styringis of heuene doen reuerence to God]. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5388 (MED) If þe pylers of heven bright, Þat er haly men þat has liffed right, Sal dred Cristes commyng..What sal þe synful men þan do? 1535 Psalms lxxv. 3 The earth is weake & all that is therein, but I beare vp hir pilers. 1611 Job xxvi. 11 The pillars of heauen tremble, and are astonished at his reproofe. View more context for this quotation 1707 I. Watts ii. 134 Then should the Earths old Pillars shake [etc.]. 1775 T. Sydney i. 3/2 His power supported the pillars of heaven. 1831 5 Sept. 6/4 Justice must be done, even though it should shake the pillars of Heaven. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer I. i. 3 The long-wrought pillars that sunder the heavens from the earthly land. 1923 D. A. Mackenzie x. 147 The Egyptian sky-goddess..whose legs and arms, as she bends over the earth, represent the four pillars on which the sky was supposed to rest. 2003 (Nexis) 22 Aug. s12 Though they were praising the Almighty, their devilish hardcore rhythms shook the very pillars of heaven. 4. figurative. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [noun] > respectability > person c1330 in T. Wright (1839) 325 (MED) Seint Thomas..was a piler ariht to holden up holi churche. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) Gal. ii. 9 James and Cephas..the whiche weren seyn for to be pileris [L. columnæ], ȝauen to me..that riȝt hondis of fellowschip. a1438 (1940) i. 29 (MED) Þow wer a chosyn sowle..and a peler of Holy Cherch. 1485 W. Caxton tr. sig. bv/2 The patryarke of Iherusalem..sente to hym [sc. Charles] the standart of the fayth as to the pyler of crystente. 1590 E. Spenser To Ld. Grey in sig. Qq3 Most Noble Lord the pillor of my life. 1628 J. Earle iii. sig. B7v He is a maine pillar of our Church, though not yet Deane nor Canon. 1667 J. Milton ii. 302 With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A Pillar of State. View more context for this quotation 1704 III. x. 48 The Earl of Manchester, and the Earl of Warwick, were the two Pillars of the Presbyterian Party. 1781 E. Gibbon III. xxvii. 22 The scourge of Arianism, and the pillar of the orthodox faith. 1850 Ld. Tennyson lxii. 88 Some divinely gifted man..The pillar of a people's hope. 1888 tr. H. Ibsen (title) Pillars of society and other plays. 1891 G. B. Shaw 82 The hero [sc. Karsten Bernick]..is not accepted as a typical pillar of society. 1920 M. Beer II. iv. xvi. 315 Gladstone died, and with him one of the main pillars of Liberal Labourism disappeared. 1978 14 Mar. 19/1 Mr. Baxter has been a great fellow to work with and a pillar of strength. 2001 J. Wolcott xxxiv. 217 Lloyd Fairwell—once a pillar of the community, now the town skunk. the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > support a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden (1842) (modernized text) 383 Paul calleth the church the firmament and pillar of truth. 1561 F. Coxe sig. Avij I knowe that what euer..they esteme, as principall rules and pillers of their knowledge to be nothing else but meare fables and toyes. 1578 T. Timme tr. J. Calvin 324 To the end the new promise may lean upon a better piller. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor 67 The pillar and ground of Transubstantiation is supplanted. a1691 G. Fox (1952) (modernized text) ii. 24 I told him the Church was the pillar and ground of Truth, made up of living stones. 1797 22 556 The axiomatic pillars of a new code of the law of nations. 1833 A. Crichton I. vii. 334 Pillars of the Sonnee faith. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald ii. ii. 227 There had been a time when his own Celtic traits were pillars of his personal philosophy. 1991 31 Jan. 6/4 Launched in 1961 on the twin pillars of anti-colonialism and independence from superpower blocs, the movement is deeply divided about the war. 5. the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > support 1360–1 in J. T. Fowler (1899) II. 384 (MED) In..uno lecto in le spendement, et Rogero Turnour pro pylers pro eisdem lectis [read pro eodem lecto] cum clavibus. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 183 (MED) And the tables whereon men eten, somme ben of emeraudes..And the pileres [Fr. pilers] þat beren vp the tables ben of the same precious stones. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll.) 802 And the women kneled downe before an auter of sylver wyth four pyloures. 1595 P. Henslowe (1961) 9 Itm turnde pellers in the parler iij yrdes at xvjd yrd. 1607 in W. H. Hale (1841) 7 To provide a new comunion table with turned pillers before Easter. 1657 A. Wood (1891) I. 225 All curiously cut in stone in the pillars of the window. c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio III. viii. 18 Making every brace bear up its pillar, and every pillar the cross beam. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 49 487 A middle sized pillar and claw tea-table. 1774 M. Mackenzie 42 How to adjust Bird's twelve-inch Quadrant... The Pillar is to be set perpendicular to the Horizon. 1833 J. Holland II. 302 The lever..is ten feet long, nine feet from the smaller end to the axis of suspension in the pillar M, and one foot from the latter point to the eye of the descending rod. 1850 J. Greenwood 137 Pillars, the square or turned pieces of timber erected perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for the support of the decks. 1875 E. H. Knight III. 1703/2 Pillar..[inter alia] The nipple of a fire-arm. A frame on which the tobacco-pipes rest in a kiln. 1902 W. W. Beaumont in A. C. Harmsworth et al. (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 218 Looseness between steering wheel and end of steering pillar can be found at any time. 1955 R. Fastnedge x. 232 These ‘pillar and claw’ supports were used for cheval fire screens, for pole screens,..and other tables. 1990 Aug. 56/1 A micro-adjustable SR alloy seat pillar was fitted. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > harp or lyre > [noun] > parts of > wood 1794 E. Jones (rev. ed.) 114 (note) Perhaps the only possible way it [sc. a Welsh harp] could have been formed to sustain the great tension of the strings without a pillar. 1838 XII. 52/2 Its [sc. an Irish harp's] form is not unlike that of the modern instrument, but the pillar is curved outwards. 1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove I. 685/1 The pillar is hollow to include the rods working the mechanism. 1947 47 25/1 Unlike the Irish harps, and that mentioned by Iolo Goch, the pillar—in post-mediæval times—was invariably straight. 2000 (Nexis) 17 Sept. (North Weekly section) 13 One of his distinctive decorations, according to Vickers, was his depiction of saints around the top of the harp's pillar. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > frame or chassis > vertical frame members 1907 25 Sept. 261/1 The hind pillars were painted white from top to bottom. 1926 26 Oct. 637/1 The roof..slides back as far as the pillars in front of the rear doors. 1937 9 Mar. 219/3 A point..noticeable when sitting in the car is the wide range of vision made possible by extremely narrow pillars. 1964 Apr. 47/2 The VW Devonette had its windscreen divided by a pillar which did not help forward vision. 1977 Nov. 19/2 The new Granada shape is clean and very smart, though it has lost the rather pleasant kink by the rear pillar. 1992 I. Banks ii. 34 The car skidded briefly... He clutched at the grab handle on the door pillar. 6. Any of various supporting structures of the body likened to a pillar. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 61v Þe legges bene mene bytwene þe feet an þe þyȝes..They..beþ, as it were, pileres of þe body, abel to bere þe weiȝte of þe body. c1450 in (1913) 131 62 (MED) Blissede be þi nekke, pilere streghte and euen, Vprighte berynge þi hede and thi vesage. 1621 M. Wroth i. 64 Her neck the curiousest pillar of white Marble, breast of Snow. 1812 R. Wilson 13 Oct. (1861) I. 194 My leg is still a little pillar, with three wounds in it; but..I go about in droska. 1835 W. Wordsworth 301 White as her marble neck Is, and the pillar of the throat would be. 1951 A. Ridler (1991) 110 Her neck is a doric pillar Her brow is the arch's keystone. 1978 C. Heath 98 Her pillars of legs doubtless worry her doctor; they descend, ankleless, into sloppy slippers. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 713 Note also, that the Laminulæ and bony Pillars are every where to be observ'd where there is a passage. 1726 A. Monro 86 In some Sculls, besides the large osseus Septum, there are found in each Sinus several bony Pillars. 1826 23 Sept. 812/2 It resembles very much the human velum..; in the ape, the pillars are separated below farther from each other. 1876 9 81 The pillars of the fauces were immovable. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. VI. 74 The posterior mediastinum between the pillars of the diaphragm. 1949 H. Bailey (ed. 11) vi. 57 (caption) By pressure against the interior pillar of the fauces an apparently small buried tonsil may be everted from its bed. 1995 24 241 The pillar of bone between the eye sockets (interorbital septum) is narrow. society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > specific a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in (1843) II. 25 Suche pollaxis and pyllers, suche mvlys trapte with gold. 1548 f. lviiv He [sc. Wolsey] receaued the habite, hat and piller, and other vaynglorious tryfles, apperteygnyng to the ordre of a Cardinall. 1599 F. Thynne (1875) 63 Euery cardinall had, for parte of his honorable ensignes borne before hym, certeine siluer pillers; as had cardinall Wolsey..and Cardinall Poole, in my memory. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher ii. iv. (stage direct.) Then two Gentlemen bearing two great Siluer Pillers . View more context for this quotation 1780 J. Towers II. 17 Two gentlemen carried before him also two pillars of silver. 1875 Oct. 717/2 With his seven silver pillars, his maces, his poleaxes, his crosses, his hat, and his great seal. 1942 G. M. Trevelyan iv. 94 He..marched in state with silver pillars and pole-axes borne before him. 1997 S. Anglo (rev. ed.) vii. 242 The hated symbols of his authority—his crosses, pillars, and pole-axes. the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adjective] > moving hither and thither a1550 Vox Populi 185 in W. C. Hazlitt (1866) III. 274 From piller vnto post The powr man he was tost. 1598 R. Tofte ii. sig. E3v And though from piller tost he be to poste. 1602 ii. iv. sig. C3 Euery minute tost, Like to a tennis ball, from piller to post. a1626 N. Breton Char. Queen Elizabeth in (1966) II. 5/1 How was shee handled? tost from piller to post, imprisoned, sought to be put to death. 1664 C. Cotton 1 Packt, and wrackt, and lost, and tost, And bounc'd from Pillar unto Post. 1705 P. A. Motteux ii. i. 20 An Aversion to starving and being drub'd from Pillar to Post by a handly of foul ugly Rogues. 1753 R. North 35 Then are they sent back, and tost from Pillar to Post in Carts. 1807 T. Jefferson (1830) IV. 91 If the several courts could bandy him from pillar to post. 1832 H. Martineau v. 63 We could not have borne to be..driven from pillar to post. 1886 G. Saintsbury in Apr. 416/2 The inveterate habit of pillar-to-post joking. 1891 T. Hardy I. i. 6 Here have I been knocking about..from pillar to post. 1919 Mar. 340/2 It was the old story of a life of hard knocks, of being shoved from pillar to post. 1997 30 Jan. 41/1 Deane was shoved from pillar to post by previous boss Howard Wilkinson. society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > column the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > figure > groupings of figures > column of figures 1557 R. Record sig. Ki A table..where in the firste columpne you se the rootes set, and in the seconde piller, right against eche roote, there is set his square. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in vi. xvi. 105 The pages deuided into pillers or columnes. 1603 A. Top sig. C4v As for the seuerall names of the Letters of euery Abce, let each Countrey tearme the whole Pillar, as she calles her owne. 1628 (ed. 2) xxvi. 388 Diuiding euery page into sixe columnes, or pillars. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > pillar or area of unworked material 1591 (P.R.O.: DL 1/153 F3) John Drake, John Roebucke and others haue nowe..seuerall times..felled and cutt downe all the heads, pillers, and other workes..made within the groundes of your oratours said myne at your oratours great charges for bearing up of the groundes there. 1659 Lease (W. Yorks. Arch. Service, Bradford: MM/A/250) in G. Redmond (2016) 51 He will at all tymes..keep and maintaine in all such pitt or pittes..good and sufficient pillers for the upholding and supporting of the groundfeild. 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 17 in T. Nourse (ed. 3) The Remainder of four Yards is left for a Pillar to support the Roof and Weight of the Earth above. 1797 J. Curr 30 The two rope barrels..are fixed in two inclining board gates.., which are divided by a pillar of solid coal 4 yards thick. 1839 A. Ure 975 Working coal~mines..with pillars and rooms, styled post and stall. 1854 II. 252 It is the practice here..to arrange board and pillar workings so that the goaf may lay on the dip of the face of the work. 1883 W. S. Gresley 203 Rib and pillar, a system upon which the Thick coal seam was formerly extensively mined, being a kind of pillar and stall plan. 1920 A. H. Fay 510/2 Pillar-and-breast... Also called Pillar-and-stall, Post-and-stall, Bord-and-pillar. 1935 H. Heslop i. iii. 32 Let us begin with the Yard Seam... You may be aware that always the board and pillar system has been wrought in that seam. 1950 12 Apr. 4/1 The first work on the roof or pillar..would bring the whole thing down on top of you. 1960 Oct. 34/3 Bord-and-pillar working. 2000 31 July 10/3 Traditional coal mines use the room-and-pillar technique. the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of 1684 No. 1991/4 Another Watch a Spelter Box and Case all in one..with a round Pillar going 18 hours. 1704 J. Harris I Frame is the Out-work of a Clock or Watch, consisting of the Plates and Pillars. 1884 F. J. Britten (new ed.) 193 The pillars of a watch are the three or four short pieces of brass which serve to keep the two plates of the movement in their proper relative positions. 1990 Nov. (advt.) The movement with five pillars is made to a good standard. the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell > part of 1776 E. M. da Costa 115 The Pillar (Columella) is the middle part, or axis, which runs through the Shell its length. ?1841 1 No. 9. 269 Throat of the aperture brown, the pillar pale. 1894 28 911 Liræ, as these elevated lines are called when on the outer lip; or plaits, when situated on the pillar. 1988 30 295 Species are defined using parameters of protoconch type, spire height, aperture width, pillar lirae count, and shell length. Compounds C1. General attributive and similative. 1871 11 Mar. 12/2 On Sunday night a number of pillar caps were broken off from the pillars of their gates. 2001 (Nexis) 16 Oct. 24 Various sizes of coping stones and pillar caps. 1783 (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) II. 358 The holes in the pillar S, are for the pillar-pins VV, to alter the direction of the beam of the plough. 1885 C. G. W. Lock 4th Ser. 327/1 Push out the pillar pins, and remove the top plate. 1678 S. Butler iii. iii. 238 Or wait for Customers, between The Piller-Rows in Lincolns-Inn. 1776 J. Lee (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 392 Cylindrica, pillar-shaped. 1886 27 July 8/1 A pillar-shaped light was observed..to proceed from the summit of Mount Tarawera. 1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler vi. 76 The formation of pillar-shaped ‘styliforus’ teeth. 1657 R. Carpenter 1 The Reason is Pillar-strong. C2. 1920 A. H. Fay 510/2 Pillar-and-breast... Also called Pillar-and-stall, Post-and-stall, Bord-and-pillar. 1906 at Pillar sb. Pillar and stall, also pillar and room. 1912 N. H. Moore facing p. 113 (caption) Pillar and scroll top clock. 2000 (Nexis) 29 Apr. g5 I have a nice pillar-and-scroll clock that was made about 1840. 1868 W. H. Pearce iv. 36 The pillar and stall system is carried out in the working away of a certain portion of the coal as a first measure and the leaving of the remainder in pillars..for the support of the roof. 1994 21 Aug. (Review Suppl.) 44/3 The difference between pillar-and-stall and longwall methods of coal-getting. society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > apostle > [noun] > chief 1875 M. Arnold Pref. p. ix The alleged bitter hatred of St. Peter and the other pillar-apostles against St. Paul. 1999 24 Sept. 16/2 The momentous consequence of the conversion and mission of Paul was to win the consent of the pillar apostles at Jerusalem. ?a1562 G. Cavendish (1959) 20 He had ij Crosberers & ij Pillers berers. 1706 N. Crouch (ed. 2) 98 He had likewise 2 Cross-bearers and 2 Pillar-bearers in the Great Chamber. 1906 at Pillar Two of these, of silver gilt, were borne by pillar-bearers before Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Pole. the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > projecting bracket > on a pole or pillar 1854 W. Johnson 177/1 A pillar bracket to support one end of the main crank disc shaft. 1887 D. A. Low 34 End elevation of a pillar bracket for carrying a pillow block. 1976 2 Hinge pillar brackets 26 and 28 are attached to and extend from the rearward pillar 16 of the vehicle body. 1993 (Nexis) 9 Apr. c26/1 A breathtaking pillar bracket in the shape of a seminude woman who stretches one arm back over her head. 2002 1/2 B pillar brackets are preferably assembled to reinforcement plates and fastener retention plates. 1906 at Pillar sb. Pillar-brick. 1858 5 285 A Black Pillar Buoy bearing a bell, with perch and ball. 2003 12 Oct. b2 The Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District will begin removing small boat warning signs and pillar buoys. the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock 1880 Oct. 217/3 A number of these pillar clocks, of very ornamental appearance and, illuminated at night, are said to have been erected in that city. 1933 Aug. p. xvi/1 Mr. Mody..retains the useful terms ‘Lantern, Bracket, and Pillar Clocks’ to describe the main types. 1962 E. Bruton 131 Pillar clock, French drum clock with round movement and dial on four vertical pillars standing on a round base... Also a special form of Japanese clock showing time by a pointer moving along a linear scale, or any clock on a pillar. 1977 C. Jagger 219 Finally, there is the weight-driven ‘pillar clock’, to which no European clock even approximates, so called because it was long, narrow, very lightly constructed and could be attached to the main upright of a building in a wholly unobtrusive way which the Japanese..would not find offensive. 2003 (Nexis) 29 Mar. 11 The pillar clock, which was made by Smith's of Derby in 1958, stopped ticking in November 2001. 1875 E. H. Knight III. 1703/2 Pillar-compass, a pair of dividers, the legs of which are so arranged that the lower part may be taken out, forming, respectively, a bow-pen and bow-pencil. society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > cross 1849 9 89 The Scotch pillar-crosses we must assign to Danish times. 2000 (Nexis) 28 May (Features section) Llanmadog's church has..a Celtic pillar cross. the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > phallus > deity worshipped through 1874 H. M. Westropp & C. S. Wake 61 The peculiar titles given to these pillar-deities..led to their original phallic character being somewhat overlooked. 1937 41 430 For griffins guarding a pillar-deity, see a Mycenaean gem. 1695 W. Lowndes 87 Foreign Moneys now Currant amongst us; Namely, the Pillar Dollars, which go at Seven Shillings and a Peny per Ounce. 1823 G. Crabb at Dollar The former [sc. Spanish dollars] are called pillar dollars, because they bear on the reverse the arms of Spain between two pillars. 1997 J. Weatherford vii. 118 Some people say that the modern dollar sign is derived from this pillar dollar. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > pillar drilling machine 1881 E. Matheson II. xxiii. 313 The self-contained Pillar drill is useful, as there is more room around the machine within which to move the article. 1990 Mar. 44/1 Matters are made rather easier if a pillar-drill is available. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > pillar drilling machine 1870 5 Mar. 15/3 (advt.) A powerful double geared pillar drilling machine. 1975 G. Bram & C. Downs vii. 198 The pillar drilling-machine..is similar in general design to the sensitive drill. society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > file > [noun] > other files 1683 J. Moxon II. 110 A small Flat-File, called a Pillar-File. 1884 F. J. Britten (new ed.) 193 A pillar file is generally understood to mean one three inches and a half long, measured from the point to the end of the cut. 1990 (Nexis) June 12 File off its rivet-face with a medium sized safe-faced pillar file. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 95v A pllerhede [read pillerhede; 1483 BL Add. 89074 Pillare hede], abacus, epistilium. 1910 R. Kipling 82 I'd hear it where I hung chipping round a pillarhead. 1972 E. Pound xx. 95 Crystal columns, acanthus, sirens in the pillar heads. 1806 E. King IV. 265 Other Stylites, or Pillar Hermits, mortified themselves by continual standing. 1990 (Nexis) 21 Oct. 6/1 St. Simeon Stylites, the world's first pillar hermit, died in AD 459. society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > post- or letter-box > pillar-box 1854 25 Nov. 88/3 It consists of placing pillar letter boxes along the leading thoroughfares, at intervals of half a mile or thereabouts. 1977 26 July 16/7 A Victorian oak pillar letter-box, probably made for John Fitzgibbon, third Earl of Clare, went for £340. the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell > part of 1776 E. M. da Costa x. 218 Umbilicated Whelks, or those that have a perpendicular hollow or navel aside the columella or pillar-lip. 1878 (new ed.) III. 948/2 The shell is sub-cylindrical, smooth, and polished.., with the pillar-lip obliquely plaited in front. society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun] > stylite a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times in (1672) 150 Peter à Metra, a famous Stylite, or Pillar-Monk. 1888 51 362 An inscription runs down the pillar-orphrey of the chasuble. 1999 6 Aug. 24/5 As I worked on the green vestment, a leaf shape emerged for the pillar orphrey. society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun] > stylite 1791 G. Wakefield 15 The perseverance of Simeon the pillar-percher. 1861 P. P. Carpenter in 181 The Boat-shells and Melons are large and thin, with very expanded mouth, and a few sharply-cut pillar-plaits. the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of 1821 2 173 A small-toothed wheel lying upon the pillar-plate. 1884 F. J. Britten (new ed.) 199 The chief plate called the pillar plate lies underneath the dial. 1987 47 321 Screws were used to secure the top plate to the pillar plate. society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > post- or letter-box > pillar-box 1840 E. S. Wortley v. i. 106 That great gigantic thing [sc. Cleopatra], whose needle looks For all the world, like some huge pillar-post! 1860 R. S. Surtees xlix. 177 He chucked the letter..into the pillar post at the Derby Station. 1881 H. James I. xv. 185 The big red pillar-post on the south-east corner. 1910 I. 240/1 Public advertisements in public streets may be posted only on the appliances, such as pillar posts, &c., provided for the purpose. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in (new ed.) II. 56 Not alone this pillar-punishment. 1884 Dec. 172/2 The ‘pillar-punishment’ of St. Simeon Stylites. 1883 W. S. Gresley 187 Pillar roads, working-roads or inclines in pillars having a range of long-wall faces on either side. 1964 A. Nelson 330 Pillar roads, roadways formed in coal pillars. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush 1837 T. Rivers 81 Clarissa Harlowe is a pillar-rose, of first-rate excellence. 1916 H. G. Wells iii. 78 Isn't that a beautiful pillar rose? Edith put it in only last year. 1992 Jan. 18/3 Check roses for wind rock especially newly planted bush roses together with climbing and pillar roses. 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim I. 254 A certain order of men, who were called Stilites by the Greeks, and Sancti Columnares, or Pillar-Saints, by the Latins. 1829 Jan. 17 He has contributed to the decline of his art, and done as little as a pillar-saint for the welfare of man. 2001 (Nexis) 24 Nov. (Property & Gardening section) 19 The battery-powered lift refused to come down and..I had an unwelcome taste of life as a pillar-saint. the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock 1860 C. Jerome iii. 44 I took about one dozen of the Pillar Scroll Top Clocks, and went to..Wethersfield to sell them. 1929 G. H. Baillie 349/2 They were at first wall clocks, but from 1814 brackets or shelf clocks known as Pillar Scroll Top clocks. society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick 1723 H. Rowlands vii. 51 How should our Columns and Pillar-Stones come to be generally plac'd near our Heaps [i.e. burial cairns]? 1854 15 361 A word that has lately become popular in the Ecclesiastical Gazette and elsewhere—for what we used to know as the ‘first’ or corner stone of a church—I mean ‘pillar stone’. 1999 M. Greenwood et al. ii. x. 357 A superb, rounded pillar-stone, this is decorated with the bold swirls of Celtic La Tène art. the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > phallus society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > non-Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing phallus 1873 2 376 The serpent and pillar symbols of the Phœnician deity confirm the identification between Set or Saturn, the Siva of the Hindu Pantheon. 1874 H. M. Westropp & C. S. Wake 51 Another instance of the use of the pillar-symbol. 1925 S. B. Bennett (ed. 4) iv. 89 The following requirements are intended to apply to step, bib, pillar, and globe taps of the ordinary pattern. 1988 Feb. 48/1 Among new brassware collections from Stelrad Doulton is the Rio range consisting of..pillar taps, monoblock mixers and three-hole mixers. 1993 (new ed.) viii. 352/2 To replace the washer in a traditional bib or pillar tap, first drain the supply pipe. 1839 A. Ure 980 Taking out all the coal, either on the Shropshire system, or with pillar-walls and rooms. 2001 (Nexis) Mar. The ground started talking and creaking like the whole thing was going to collapse. All of us, five of us, we just stood against the pillar wall and waited. 1860 W. Fordyce 32 The hewers working at the face of the bords or the pillar workings. 1877 VI. 64/2 Fig. 9 represents the Lancashire system of pillar-working. 1931 122 622/1 The system briefly is pillar working by shortwall faces, the extraction of the pillars being accomplished on the return journey. 2002 39 9 Factors affecting..stability in level contiguous pillar workings in coal mines. Derivatives 1599 T. Blundeville i. x. 32 Cubicke, or piller like. 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius vi. 198 Dark, and heavy Clouds..Pillar-like descend, and reach the Seas. 1787 W. Withering (ed. 2) II. 961 Roundish; fixed to a pillar-like receptacle. 1849 11 July 5/3 Tall pillar-like chimneys. 2000 9 Oct. i. 6/6 Cetiosaurus resembled the more familiar Brontosaurus, with a long neck and tail and pillar-like legs. 1625 J. Poole in S. Purchas III. iii. xiii. 565 Two mayne square pieces of Timber, which stand Pillar wise in the loose of the ship. 1790 J. Bell I. 182/2 Oblong stones erected pillar-wise. 1857 Ld. Dufferin vii. 160 The brass carronades set on end, pillar-wise. 1999 (Nexis) 14 Apr. 1 We had a lot of restrictions pillar-wise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pillarv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pillar n. Etymology: < pillar n. Compare earlier pillared adj. and pillaring n. 1. society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with beams or supports society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > pillar > [verb (intransitive)] > supported by pillar 1711 W. Sutherland 36 So order the Beams, that they may pillar on the Floor-riders. 1787 ‘Vicarius’ v. 171 Those massy props, pillaring the firmament, shall reel, shall crumble, shiver into ruins. 1839 J. Rogers xvi. iv. 333 Five particular plans for pillaring up the priesthood. 1880 J. Legge iv. 46 It needs the props of truth to pillar it. 1920 G. Arthur III. cxxxiii. 350 An ally whom it behoved us to pillar up as much and for as long as possible. 2002 (Nexis) 1 Jan. 22 The general mine plan requires one panel to be advancing while another is being pillared on retreat. the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > form cylinder [verb (transitive)] 1787 sig. Dv Fine white marble, either curiously arched, pillared, or blocked up into fine building stones. 1812 Ld. Byron i. vii. 6 Yet strength was pillar'd in each massy aisle. 1846 Ld. Tennyson 4 Aug. (1982) I. 259 Hotel full of light..pillaring its lights in the quiet water. 1890 Oct. 424 The inward and outward wholeness of sincerity..pillars itself aloft over their heads. 1992 Apr. 86/3 Pillaring the clays for catalysis has two benefits. the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > cause to move in a direction [verb (transitive)] > hither and thither 1901 G. Keats 62 He must have been pillared and posted a deal in his bit of life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.c1180 v.1711 |
