Pillar
Pillar noun - An upright shaft that supports an overhead structure.
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Staff and pillar are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Staff" instead a noun "Pillar".
Nearby Word: pillared
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Even more absurd are Gaira's giant prayer beads, Wan-fu's stone pillar and Nicotine's monk staff.
Source: Video Game / Samurai Shodown -
For example, when Garnet summons Ramuh with the Storm Staff, Ramuh arises atop a giant pillar of earth, much like his Final Fantasy IX incarnation.
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Taken for Granite: One of the Staff's powers, which can be used to turn things into anything stone but usually takes the form of a stone pillar that has parts jutting out depending one how they were standing when petrified in the present.
Source: Video Game / Memoria
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