proppage

proppage

English

Etymology

prop +‎ -age

Noun

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.