Bolster vs Astand - What's the difference?
bolster | astand |
A large cushion or pillow.
* Shakespeare
A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
* John Gay
A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons which give the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
A short, horizontal, structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam. Sometimes also called a pillow or cross-head (Australian English).
The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
(label) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
(obsolete) To arise; rise up.
(obsolete) To come to a standstill; stop; arrive.
(obsolete) To remain standing; continue; abide; persist; onstand.
(obsolete) To withstand; atstand.
As verbs the difference between bolster and astand
is that bolster is to brace, reinforce, secure, or support while astand is (obsolete) to arise; rise up.As a noun bolster
is a large cushion or pillow.bolster
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Alternative forms
* * (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster , / This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.
- This arm shall be a bolster for thy head.