Strap Definition

străp

strapped, strapping, straps

noun

straps

A long narrow strip of pliant material such as leather.

American Heritage

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.

Webster's New World

Any flat, narrow piece, as of metal, used as a fastening.

Webster's New World

A narrow band formed into a loop for grasping with the hand.

American Heritage

Any of several straplike parts or things, as a shoulder strap, a loop for pulling on boots, a razor strop, etc.

Webster's New World

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verb

strapped, strapping, straps

To fasten with a strap.

Webster's New World

To beat with a strap.

Webster's New World

To strop (a razor)

Webster's New World

To fasten or bind with a strap.

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Strap

Singular:

strap

Plural:

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 στρόφος (strophos, “rope"), from στρέφω (strephō, “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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Alteration of strop

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition