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单词 propstick
释义

propstick

English

Alternative forms

  • prop-stick, prop stick

Etymology

prop + stick

Noun

propstick (plural propsticks)

  1. Any stick or pole used to prop something up.
  2. Formerly, a forked stick used to raise the height of a clothesline with wet washing drying on it; a clothesprop.
    • 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 22:
      When the sun went down she could have seen the assiduous Squeaker lower the new prop-sticks and considerately stoop to gather the pegs his inconsiderate new mate had dropped.
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