PROP,
1. To support or prevent from falling by placing something under or against as, to prop a fence or an old building.
2. To support by standing under or against.
Till the bright mountains prop th' incumbent sky.
3. To support to sustain in a general sense as, to prop a declining state.
I prop myself upon the few supports that are left me.
PROP, n. That which sustains an incumbent weight that on which any thing rests for support a support a stay as a prop for vines a prop for an old building. An affectionate child is the prop of declining age.