Prop /(?)/

1. A shell, used as a die. See Props.

imp. & p. p. Propped; p. pr. & vb. n. Propping

1. 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. [Fig.]

   Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.

   For being not propp'd by ancestry.

   I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.

1. That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.