英和和英

語源

prop +‎ stick

名詞

propstick (複数形 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.