Слово "bolster". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  So much for your rotten pessimism,” he snarled at Michaelis, who uncrossed his thick legs, similar to bolsters, and slid his feet abruptly under his chair in sign of exasperation.

On a black bier-like sofa in this hollow, propped up behind with one great angular black bolster like the block at a state execution in the good old times, sat his mother in a widow’s dress.

Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster.

It was as though the great brute by this show of fearlessness, and through the medium of his wild voice, was endeavoring to bolster up his courage to the point which would permit him to take the rifle in his hand.

If instead, we can bolster a human spirit to keep hope,

and ultimately to bolstering the economy.