English Dictionary

bolster

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbəʊlstə/

名詞

歴史的

A large cushion or pillow. / 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.

日本語の意味

大きなクッションや枕 / 体の一部を支える、または圧力を軽減するために使用されるパッドやキルト、その他の緩衝具 / 傷口に対して包帯が楽にのせられるようにするために用いられる圧迫材や湿布

She propped a decorative bolster behind her back to read more comfortably.

彼女は読書をするために背中に装飾用の大きなクッションを当てた。

意味（1）

A large cushion or pillow.

And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, / This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.

意味（2）

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.

This Arm ſhall be a Bolſter for thy Head, / I'll fetch clean Straw to make my Soldier's Bed; / There, while thou ſleep'ſt, my Apron o'er thee hold, / Or with it patch thy Tent againſt the Cold.

意味（3）

(vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.

意味（6）

The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.

意味（7）

The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.

意味（8）

The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

意味（9）

(architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.

Its [the Ionic's column's] ancient capital is generally formed of two parallel bolsters

意味（10）

(military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

bolsters （ plural ）