underˈpropping, vbl. n.
[f. as prec.]
The action of supporting with props, etc.; also concr., that which serves to underprop.
| 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 391 Mauger all the power and under-propping, which he receiveth from the wicked. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse 17, I will not, by the vnderpropping of confutation, seeme to giue the idle witted aduersary so much encouragement. 1628 Feltham Resolves ii. xix. 61 [The soul] rests full, in her owne approuement, without the weake Worlds reedy vnder-propping. 1658 A. Fox Würtz' Surg. ii. xiv. 107 Such Wounds must be helped with underproppings and bolsters. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 129 Let this underpropping be run up as fast as possible. |