clothes prop

And with the aid of the clothes-prop he did manage to make the descent without her hand and without disaster.

The lance-pole of this knight was a clothes-prop, at the end of which a pepper-box was duly fixed instead of a lance.

He had a clothes-prop with him that day, and pausing at the end of the porch, he leaned on it and gasped.

Up would go the clothes-prop of Mr. Fletcher or Frederick; down would go the stranger cat.