strap

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to secure, especially a sprained joint, with a strap

   They strapped their elbow to avoid further injury.

2. 2
   verb

   sharpen with a strap

   strap a razor

3. 3
   noun

   A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.

   The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.

4. 4
   noun

   A strip of thick leather used in flogging.

   a lively cobbler, that […] had scarce passed a day in his life without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.

5. 5
   noun

   A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.

   Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third / 'Cause I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird

6. 6
   noun

   A strap-on.

   After that, I graduated up to my first serious queer relationship where I learned the ropes. The first partner who strapped me made it everything I had wished for. She was thoughtful, patient, and would take her cues from how I responded. It was the complete opposite of my first sexual experience which was deeply disappointing and harmful. She bought a new strap just for us — a purple one with a Black harness. She had trouble putting it on, and it was important to her that she didn’t get dressed in front of me. As she struggled in the bathroom with the door open I laughed. “Don’t look!” she screamed as I heard her adorably grunt. She refused my giggly filled offer of help but that little moment beautifully eased the mood for my first time, releasing the tension I felt at being awkward and so new to strap-on sex, especially with a partner who had over a decade more experience than me.

7. 7
   noun

   A championship belt, or by extension, the title.

   David Arquette was given the belt because he's a celebrity. Period. I wasn't that upset about it because even the on-air product treated it as laughable. It was a "fluke" that Arquette managed to grab the strap, and he held it for less than a week. But there was no point in it....that I do agree with.

8. 8
   verb

   To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.

   to strap a razor

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 St…