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