supporting

Etymology

adj

1. That supports.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of support

noun

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […] 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252
   […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings. 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute