proppage

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

prop +‎ -age

Noun[edit]

proppage (uncountable)

  1. (rare) That which props or supports.
    • 1827, Thomas Carlyle, Translations from the German: Musaeus, Tieck, Richter:
      […] he had not risked taking a stick with him; and hat and stick were his proppage and balance-wheel, in short, his bowing-gear, […]
    • 1847, The Builder, volume 5, page 256:
      […] notwithstanding the stoppage of the excavation, and the proppage of the work, […]
    • 1958, Witold Hensel, Aleksander Gieysztor, Archaeological Research in Poland, page 20:
      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.
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