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strap

English

Alternative forms

  • strop, strope

Etymology

From a variant of earlier strope (loop on a harness), from Middle English strope, stropp, 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 ??????? (stróphos, rope), from ?????? (stréph?, 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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /st?æp/
  • Rhymes: -æp

Noun

strap (countable and uncountable, plural straps)

  1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
    1. A strap worn on the shoulder.
  2. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
  3. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
  4. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
  5. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
    1. (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
    2. (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
  6. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
  7. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
  8. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
  9. (slang, uncountable, archaic) Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
  10. (journalism) Synonym of strapline
  11. (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ????? (sutorappu)

Translations

Verb

strap (third-person singular simple present straps, present participle strapping, simple past and past participle strapped)

  1. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
  2. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
  3. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop

Derived terms

  • strap on a pair
  • strap-on

Translations

Anagrams

  • TRAPS, parts, prats, rapts, sprat, tarps, traps

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strap/

Verb

strap

  1. second-person singular imperative of strapi?

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curple

English

Etymology

A corruption of the Scottish crupper.

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -??(?)p?l

Noun

curple (plural curples)

  1. The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward
  2. (transferred) The buttocks, the posterior.

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