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noun

Strap n.

1.

A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. "A lively cobbler that... had scarce passed a day without giving her (his wife) the discipline of the strap."

2.

Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.

3.

A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.

4.

A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. Specifically:

(a)

(Carp. & Mach.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.

(b)

(Naut.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

5.

(Bot.)

(a)

The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.

(b)

The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

6.

A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.

Strap bolt, a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length.

Strap head (Mach.), a journal box, or pair of brasses, secured to the end of a connecting rod by a strap.

Strap hinge, a hinge with long flaps by which it is fastened, as to a door or wall.

Strap rail (Railroads), a flat rail formerly used.

verb

Strap v. t. (past & past part. strapped; pres. part. strapping)

1.

To beat or chastise with a strap.

2.

To fasten or bind with a strap.

3.

To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.

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Etymology of 'Strap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Strap" Quotes from Famous Books

... health flannels by day and a health shirt at night ("Just like my old Aunt Margaret's wrapper," whispered Marny in a stage voice to Pudfut); sported a ninety-nine-cent silver watch fastened to a leather strap (sometimes to a piece of twine); stuck a five-hundred-dollar scarab pin in his necktie—"Nothing finer in the Boston Museum," he maintained, and told the truth—and ever and always enunciated an English so pure and so ...

— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith

... arrested Bert with a gesture, took hold of a strap, lifted up a panel in the padded wall, and a window appeared. "Look!" he said. Side ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... ears with their backs to the wind, in order to make them sand-proof. If any person other than Salih touches it, an incredible quantity of green cud is instantly let loose over their turbans; but at the approach of Salih it emits a purring noise, preens its head for the nose-strap ornamented with a bunch of palmlike plumes, and playfully pretends not to want the bersim which the little black Sphinx thrusts down its throat in handfuls. This, it seems, is good camel table-manners. And it is to the tail of this animal that Salih clings ...

— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson

... were gay borders—scrolls and strap-work and diapered backgrounds, a maze of colour, with small misshapen figures clambering cheerily up and down everywhere. But first I eagerly scanned what text there was in the middle, in order to get ...

— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame

... have a new departure. Gill at the Cape, having the comet 1882.ii. all to himself in those latitudes, wished his friends in Europe to see it, and employed a local photographer to strap his camera to the observatory equatoreal, driven by clockwork, and adjusted on the comet by the eye. The result with half-an-hour's exposure was good, so he tried three hours. The result was such a display of sharp star images that he resolved on the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung, which after ...

— History of Astronomy • George Forbes

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