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noun

strap
a device, esp. a thick leather band, used for putting a fine edge on razors

Origin: ME, a band, thong, noose < OE, akin to MHG strupfe < early WGmc loanword < L struppus < Gr strophos, a twisted band: for IE base see strophe

transitive verb stropped, stropping

to sharpen on a strop

Related Forms:

stropper noun

See strop in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A strap, especially a short rope whose ends are spliced together to make a ring.
A flexible strip of leather or canvas used for sharpening a razor.

transitive verb stropped stropped, strop·ping, strops

To sharpen (a razor) on a strop.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English strope, band of leather

Origin: , probably from Old English, thong for an oar

Origin: , from Latin stroppus, twisted cord

Origin: , from Greek strophos

Origin: , from strephein, to turn; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots

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