Strap meaning
Strap is defined as to fasten or connect.
An example of strap is to buckle a seat belt.
verb
The definition of a strap is something used to carry, bind, fasten or connect.
An example of a strap is a narrow piece of leather to carry a purse over the shoulder; a shoulder strap.
noun
A thin flat metal or plastic band used for fastening or clamping objects together or into position.
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A narrow strip or band of leather or other flexible material, often with a buckle or similar fastener at one end, for binding or securing things.
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A razor strop.
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A strip of leather used in flogging.
noun
To fasten or secure with a strap.
verb
Any flat, narrow piece, as of metal, used as a fastening.
noun
To fasten with a strap.
verb
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
noun
A narrow band formed into a loop for grasping with the hand.
noun
To beat with a strap.
verb
To sharpen (a razor, for example).
verb
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Any of several straplike parts or things, as a shoulder strap, a loop for pulling on boots, a razor strop, etc.
noun
To beat with a strap.
verb
To strop (a razor)
verb
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
- (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
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(botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
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(botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
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Origin of strap
- Alteration of strop
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness"), from Middle English strope, stropp, from Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong"), from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap"), from Ancient Greek στÏόφος (strophos, “rope"), from στÏÎφω (strephÅ, “to twist"). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong"), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop"), Low German Strop (“strap"), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord"), Danish strop (“strap"), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop").
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