marionette
nounA 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.
