proppage

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noun

That which props or supports.

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Meanings

nounproppage (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableThat which props or supports.

    […] notwithstanding the stoppage of the excavation, and the proppage of the work, […]

    1847, The Builder, volume 5, page 256
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    […] he had not risked taking a stick with him; and hat and stick were his proppage and balance-wheel, in short, his bowing-gear, […]

    1827, Thomas Carlyle, Translations from the German: Musaeus, Tieck, Richter

    Mention should also be made of the discovery in the area of Rudki near Slupia-Nowa (in the vicinity of Kielce) of an old iron ore mine — with shafts, galleries and solid wooden proppage — that had been exploited since the Roman Era.

    1958, Witold Hensel, Aleksander Gieysztor, Archaeological Research in Poland, page 20

Origin

From prop + -age.

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Chicago

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