strap
/stɹæp/ noun, verb
Forms straps strapping strapped strop strope
- noun A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- noun A strap worn on the shoulder.
- noun A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- noun 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 piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- noun (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- noun (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- noun (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- verb (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- verb (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap. “I strapped my son into the back seat.”
- verb (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop. “to strap a razor”
- verb (transitive) To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone.
Synonyms
strapline shoulder strap flog welt whip lather lash slash trounce
Antonyms
Etymology
From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic *stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). 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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- noun 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.
- verb To beat or chastise with a strap.
- verb To fasten or bind with a strap. Cowper.
Etymology [OE. strope, AS. stropp, L. stroppus, struppus, perhaps fr. Gr. Strophe). Cf. Strop a strap, a piece of rope.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “strap”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details