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propsticks

propsticks is the plural of propstick.

Meaning of propstick

Noun

propstick (plural 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.
    • 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.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 22

Questions about propsticks

What is propsticks the plural of?
Propsticks is the plural of propstick.

Words near propsticks in the dictionary

  1. props up the bar
  2. propshaft
  3. propshafts
  4. Propst
  5. propstick
  6. propsticks
  7. Propsts
  8. propsychotic
  9. proptech
  10. propterygia
  11. propterygial

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