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Definition of Pillars
1. pillar [v] - See also: pillar
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillars
Literary usage of Pillars
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1. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1859)
"By this arrangement of ventilation the whole of the pillars may be removed ...
The method of working the pillars at that time was commonly called "working ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"They have received their name from stretching across between the two pillars of
the external ring ; they increase the strength of the lower part of the ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"The two couplets of pillars in the middle feem to have been ... were brought from
fome ancient buildings, moil pro- bably from Alexandria ; pillars of one ..."
4. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"more pillars are left in lower than in upper part of slope. Machine slopes requ
pillars than hand-driven, due to shattering action of heavier blasts. ..."
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