Bolster is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOLSTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to support
• support or strengthen
• provide (a seat) with padded support
• To support with a bolster or pillow.
• To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
• support and strengthen
• prop up with a pillow or bolster
• add padding to
NOUN:
• a long, thick pillow that is placed under other pillows for support.
• a part on a vehicle or tool providing structural support or reducing friction.
• a short timber cap over a post designed to increase the bearing of the beams it supports.
• a heavy chisel used for cutting bricks.
• A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
• A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
• Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
• A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
• A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
• Anything used to prevent chafing.
• A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
• A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
• The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
• the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
• That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
• The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
• 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.
• a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
• long narrow pillow

Words related to BOLSTER

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Words that contain BOLSTER

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How to use BOLSTER in a sentence

• The bolster is then beaten and shaken, and put on, the top of the sheet rolled round it, and the sheet tucked in all round.
• Jumping up from our beds, each man armed himself with a bolster.
• Several axes are secured to the bolster, and the feeding-trough of the horses contains pots, kettles, and pans.
• Back then sank Gudrun, Back on the bolster, Loosed was her head array, Red did her cheeks grow, And the rain-drops ran Down over her knees.
• Get out a skirmish line, nominate our spies, bolster up our defences, set a watch, court-martial the prisoners, and look into the commissariat.
• Ben Bolster, the boss, was giving orders to the rebels.
• He was full of indignation and jealousy, and felt suspicious of the very bolster itself.
• Every time that Bertha gave me a suspicious potion, I kept a portion of it in my mouth, and carefully ejected it into a bottle which I kept hid under the bolster.
• It is a mere artifice in this party, to bolster themselves up on the revered name of that first of our worthies.
• These figures have been placed even higher by those who wish to blacken the Indian Administration in order to bolster up a malicious agitation against this country.
• Apparently, they do not seek to reach truth, but to bolster up a foregone conclusion held merely from motives of tradition.
• Claribel, with her curly hair carefully tied up in a towel, was ripping open an old feather bolster to convert it into sofa pillows.
• Various expedients are resorted to by Haeckel and a few others in their attempts to bolster up a theory which has broken so signally on the rock of heredity.
• Trying to gather up my thoughts, I soon reflected that the door was locked, and that I had put the key under my bolster.
• We want to know who is doing his best to help us, and who is only trying to make us help him, or to bolster up the system in which his interests are vested.
• An iron bedstead, with a mattress, coverlet, and bolster, a very dingy table, with two chairs, a small bench, and a cupboard, all of deal, composed the whole furniture.
• My conductor now took his leave, promising to return in a short time with some provisions, a bolster, and a coverlet for me.
• It seems comical enough at this day that he was obliged to bolster up his cause by sending round to his respectable acquaintances for certificates of good moral character.
• Then again he felt something as large as a rat make a sudden bounce in the middle of his bolster, just under his head.
• If we know ourselves we are strengthened that much, because we can bolster up our weaknesses.
• The figure collapsed, and rolled forwards till its progress was arrested by a rocky projection, over which it finally lay, doubled up like a bolster.
• He came with a huge bolster in a cab, as though out of the past and nowhere.
• He was awakening now to the truth that the day before had branded him a coward and sent him out to bolster up courage with drink.
• I waited, cool and sure now, for him to show his head or other vital part from behind his bolster.
• Item, a bedstedyll with a feather bed, one bolster, two pillows, one blanket, one roulett of rough tapestry, a testner of green and red saye.
• Which we think is an attempt to bolster up a lost cause.
• In between a place and candy is a narrow foot-path that shows more mounting than anything, so much really that a calling meaning a bolster measured a whole thing with that.
• Oh, yes, there was nothing in the scandal that said Garvington had sold his sister to bolster up the family property.

Similar words containing BOLST without suffix er

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