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propped |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prop \Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Propped}; p. pr & vb n. {Propping}.] [Akin to LG & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust into stop, G. pfropfen Dan. proppe, Sw proppa of uncertain origin, cf G. pfropfen to graft, fr L. propago set layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf 3d. {Prop}, {Propagate}.] To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as to prop a declining state. --Shak. Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. --Pope. For being not propp'd by ancestry. --Shak. I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me --Pope.
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