Definition of Strap
1. Noun. An elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position.
Specialized synonyms: Bootstrap, Cheekpiece, Chin Strap, Crupper, Latchet, Noseband, Nosepiece, Rein, Strop
Generic synonyms: Leather Strip
2. Verb. Tie with a strap.
3. Noun. Hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it.
4. Verb. Beat severely with a whip or rod. "They want to strap the prisoners "; "The children were severely trounced"
Generic synonyms: Beat, Beat Up, Work Over
Specialized synonyms: Flagellate, Scourge, Leather, Horsewhip, Switch, Cowhide, Cat, Birch
Derivative terms: Flogging, Lash, Lash, Trouncing, Welt, Whip, Whip, Whipper, Whipping
5. Noun. A band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag.
Generic synonyms: Band
Group relationships: Brace, Gallus, Suspender, Bandeau, Bra, Brassiere, Chemise, Shift, Shimmy, Slip, Teddy, Golf Bag
6. Verb. Sharpen with a strap. "Strap a razor"
7. Noun. Whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging.
8. Verb. Secure (a sprained joint) with a strap.
Definition of Strap
1. n. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
2. v. t. To beat or chastise with a strap.
Definition of Strap
1. to fasten with a strap (a narrow strip of flexible material) [v STRAPPED, STRAPPING, STRAPS]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Strap
Literary usage of Strap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia by William Churchill (1917)
"Length, 41 inches, of which blade is 19 inches; at 22 inches, transverse strap
of 2 bands, the upper merging in swell of shaft; these bands completed on one ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XLVII strap communicates to me a Conquest he had made of a Chandler's
Widow—Finds himself miserably mistaken—I go to the Opera—Admire Melinda--Am ..."
3. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1879)
"And moreover all the flowers of the head are strap-shaped and alike. 278.
Puzzling as these strap-shaped corollas appear at first view, an attentive ..."
4. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"In addition to the cord and webbing we use what are known as the Rarey straps,
consisting of the short strap and the long strap. The Short strap. ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"When the strap at the back end of the main rod breaks, ... When the front-end
main-rod strap breaks, the effect is about the same as when a back-end strap ..."
6. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"A block with a strap around it, and an eye worked at the lower end for ...
A device to hold a hitching-strap. The cam, being free to turn upon its pivot, ..."
7. Modern Pulp and Paper Making: A Practical Treatise by George Strong Witham (1920)
"The deckle strap is nothing more or less than a dam against which the paper stuff
forms, and a strap having any of the above mentioned defects will form an ..."
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