Definitions for pilaster

pilaster pi·las·ter

Spelling: [pi-las-ter]
IPA: /pɪˈlæs tər/

Pilaster is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 706 anagrams from letters in pilaster (aeilprst).

Definitions for pilaster

noun

  1. a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.

Origin of pilaster

1565-75; pile1 (in obsolete sense “pillar”) + -aster1, modeled on Italian pilastro or Medieval Latin pīlastrum

Examples for pilaster

A small head or top of a column; the head or uppermost member of a pilaster.

It'll cost me three and six to get that there pilaster mended.'

Further, there was a pilaster in the middle, below the central bracket.

There is a central shaft, a pilaster on each side, and then the wall.

I clung for support to the pilaster that finished the balustrade of the stairway.

In this loggia the name of Giovan Maria is carved on a pilaster.

The compartments are divided by a shallow Buttress or pilaster Strip.

It is fastened to the pilaster which supports the arch above.

If not, come with me behind the pilaster, for I have something to say before we separate.'

The spiral staircase leading to this is cut in the thickness of a pilaster.

Word Value for pilaster
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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