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PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, See also: common applications, as to columns supporting the girders of awarehouse floor or the deckbeams of a See also: ship, to the single central support or pedestal of a table, machine-tool, &c., and to the masses of See also: coal which the miner leaves in certain methods of working as supports to the roof (see Cord); it is also used figuratively of persons in such phrases as a " pillar of the See also: state." In architecture it has strictly the second sense
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The See also: column erected in honour of See also: Diocletian at Alexandria is known as See also: Pompey's pillar, and the so-called columns of Trajan and See also: Antoninus are in reality pillars, performing no structural See also: function beyond that of carrying a statue
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In See also: India the only example is the iron pillar at See also: Delhi, which is an extraordinary specimen of the iron-worker's See also: art considering the remote date at which it was made
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Up to the See also: middle of the 19th century the See also: term " pillar " was employed to designate the masses of See also: masonry in a See also: church, which carry the arcades, but now the term "pier" is invariably adopted in preference
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