Prop
Prop noun - A structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else.
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He's smart enough to know that "the staff of a wizard may be more than a prop for age", but lets Gandalf through with said staff because he deems he's a friend here to help (a judgment that is soon vindicated).
Source: The Guards Must Be Crazy - Mundane Utility: The first chapter has Moses offhandly mention using his staff to prop up a tent or whack unruly animals.
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As a joke, some of the male members of the show's staff posed in exaggerated erotic positions while either nude or half-nude, took photographs, and filled the prop calendars with them.
Source: Series / The Golden Girls
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