proppage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

That which props or supports.

Uncountable

"[…] he had not risked taking a stick with him; and hat and stick were his proppage and balance-wheel, in short, his bowing-gear, […]"
"[…] notwithstanding the stoppage of the excavation, and the proppage of the work, […]"
"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."

From prop + -age.

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