puppet

1. (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.Examples: "These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose"; "Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon."Synonyms: monkeyfiguratively

2. (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.obsolete

3. (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.