marionette

A jointed puppet manipulated from above by strings or wires attached to its limbs.

A puppet moved by strings; one of a set of such puppets used to represent characters on a mimic stage.

The buffie or buffle-headed duck.

A small complicated arrangement at the end of the batten in a ribbon-loom, for actuating the racks of the shuttles. It is curiously lifelike in its motions, whence the name.

A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.

The buffel duck.

A string puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.

The buffel duck.

To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.

a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer