support column

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   a column that supports a heavy weight

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Questions about support column

What does support column mean?

support column means "a column that supports a heavy weight".

Is support column a common word?

support column is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.