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▪ I. strap, n.|stræp|
Also 6–7, (9 Sc.) strapp, 6–7 strappe, (7 Sc. strape).
[dial. form of strop n. The early examples are either Sc. or nautical; in Sc. the form is normal: cf. tap, drap = top, drop.]
1. a. A leather band, thong; in recent use, a flat band or strip of leather of uniform breadth. (Cf. strop n. 1.)
1685Rec. Scott. Cloth Manuf. New Mills (S.H.S.) 105 Anent allowing of the stocken weavers oyle, strape and cords ordered that they be allowed oyle but noe strape nor cord. 1687Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 87 They have a stick, with a strap of leather, like a bow, but very slack. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Strap, a Thong of Leather. 1796J. Lauderdale Poems 68 (E.D.D.) Providence did bless the seed, Sae brought it forth unto the strap. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 439 Strapps, bands for binding grain with. 1827Scott Highl. Widow v, I, who have gone for years with only a strap of deer's hide to tie back my hair.
b. as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 217 My horse was quite down in one of these holes full of water but by y⊇ good hand of God's providence.., for giving him a good strap he fflounc'd up againe. 1712Addison Spect. No. 499 ⁋5 A lively Cobler, that..had scarce passed a Day in his Life without giving her the Discipline of the Strap. 1874H. Calderwood On Teaching ii. 19 ‘A thrashing-mill’, as an ingenious school-fellow named a teacher given to the rough and ready use of the strap. 1905Westm. Gaz. 20 May 6/2 I got strap for that.
c. transf. Something resembling a leather strap in form.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 195 On both Sides of his Noddle Are Straps o' th' very same Leather; Ears are imply'd, But th' are mere Hide. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 167 The stem of an ash-tree thus flattened terminated in a strap of about two inches in breadth. 1845Gosse Ocean i. (1849) 43 From a shallow cup..spring two or three long, olive-coloured straps [of the sea-thong], each of which becomes divided into two.
†d. A snare for birds. Also fig. [Cf. Du. strop in the same sense.] Obs.
1584–7Greene Carde of Fancie (1593) K 1, Is the bird inticed to the strap by the shewe of the nets? 1602Rowlands Greenes Ghost (1626) B 1, As for Conicatching, they cleape it Batfowling, the wine the Strap, and the cards the Limetwigs.
e. A rope (of onions); a cluster, bunch (of fruit). Sc. and north.
1816Scott Old Mort. x, They winna string the like o' him up as they do the puir Whig bodies..like straps o' onions. 1894Northumbld. Gloss., Strap, a cluster, a bunch; especially applied to red or white currants.
2. Naut. = strop n. 2.
a1625Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301). 1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 103 A Strap a roape which is spliced about any block, that the block thereby may be made fast, to any place where they have occasion to use it: by the eye which is made in the Strap. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 27 We broke the Straps of the Main-Sheet and Clugarnet Blocks. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 57 Strap, a number of yarns platted together with an eye at one end, to put a stick through [in ropemaking]. 1837L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 180 Blocks are suspended by straps, either of rope or iron. 1860W. P. Lennox Pict. Sporting Life II. 137 Away went the strap of the mainsheet. 1862F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (ed. 9) 107 Wooden blocks are generally bound on the outside..with a grummet, which is called ‘the strap’ of the block.
Phrase.1852Bentley's Misc. XXXI. 59 We can't keep strap and block together, no how at all.
3. A narrow strip of leather, cloth, or other material fitted with a buckle as a fastening and for adjustment.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 93/1 Strapps, are Leathers fastned to the sides of the Tree [of a saddle], to draw the Girths streight under the Horse Belly. Ibid. 93/2 End straps for tying, or buckling the ends to the Belly Girths. 1827J. F. Cooper Prairie I. i. 22 To release his own rifle from the strap. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 317 The leather part of bridles and other straps usually pass through metal rings, after which they are fastened with buckles. 1885Fairholt Costume (ed. 3) II. 386 Straps as well as leathern points were used in great numbers for the adjustment of armour. 1898Encycl. Sport II. 298/1 (Rowing) Straps, the leather bands looped through holes in the stretcher, between which and the stretcher itself the oarsman's feet are placed. 1901P. N. Hasluck Tailoring iii. 44 The right strap [at the back of a waistcoat] should be shaped at the narrow end.., and a buckle put on the left one. 1915Blackw. Mag. Apr. 493/2 ‘We'll have to step out’ concluded M‘Cabe, shortening the strap of his game-bag and settling it on his back.
4. a. A short band formerly attached to the bottom of each leg of a pair of pantaloons or trousers passing from side to side under the shank or waist of the boot. Chiefly pl.
1837Dickens Pickw. xiv, ‘Damn my straps and whiskers’, says Tom, ‘if this [the weather] ain't pleasant, blow me!’ 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvi, Master George wore straps, and the most beautiful little boots like a man. 1878Hare Story of Life (1896) I. 291 For many years afterwards, all young gentlemen wore straps to their trousers.
b. = shoulder-strap 2.
1802C. James Milit. Dict. s.v.
c. A band, usually elastic, inside the skirt of a lady's riding-habit, forming a loop in which the toe or the heel is inserted, so as to keep the skirt in its place.
1884Mrs. Kennard Right Sort x, Stirrup proceeded to adjust her skirt satisfactorily and place her feet in the elastic straps.
5. A looped band.
a. A looped band of leather or cloth attached to the top of a boot to draw it on.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iii. 13 And so bee these boots too: and they be not, let them hang themselues in their owne straps. a1625Fletcher Captain ii. ii, And by all likelihoods he was begotten Between a stubborn pair of Winter-boots; His body goes with straps, he is so churlish. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 13/2 The Straps are those Leathers sowed within the Boot on each side to draw them on. 1860W. P. Lennox Pict. Sporting Life I. 209 The boots being short, and finished with very broad straps, which hung over the tops and down to the ankles.
b. A band or loop of leather to be grasped by the hand or arm, esp. as a means of steadying oneself in a moving vehicle.
1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 375 A deal plank to tread upon, with a strap at each end to drag it along either way. 1861Mrs. J. H. Riddell City & Suburb i, ‘Now then’, yelled out another conductor, balancing himself with a strap, while he stooped to open the door of his omnibus. 1897C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxvii. (ed. 2) 415 The straps which are used in street cars to hold to when the cars are crowded.
6. Mech. A band or belt by means of which motion is communicated from one wheel, shaft, or pulley to another. = band n.2 7.
1790W. Nicholson in Repert. Arts (1796) V. 157 These three cylinders are connected, either by cogs or straps at the edges of each. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 47 The endless strap or belt which descends from the driving shaft to the steam pulley. 1860All Year Round 26 May 163 The straps glide smoothly enough about the wheels [of the machine].
7. Surg.
a. (See quot. 1706. Cf. strop n. 5.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Strap,..In Surgery, a sort of Band usually made of Silk, Wooll, or Leather, to stretch out Members, in the setting of broken or disjoynted Bones.
b. A strip of adhesive plaster used to hold together the edges of a wound, fasten on a dressing, etc.
1749Gataker tr. Le Dran's Oper. Surg. 430 In order to keep the skin even with the flesh,..we apply two straps of plaister over the lint. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 285 The utility of stiches, in some of the wounds..has been denied..and the uniting bandage and adhesive strap..may..be advantageously substituted.
8. a. A razor-strop: = strop n. 3. Obs. exc. dial.
1758Johnson Idler No. 40 ⁋9 The dispute about straps for razors, now happily subsided. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 743/2 The powder of black-lead serves also to cover the straps for razors. 1809Malkin Gil Blas ii. vii. ⁋2 Two razors..with a strap to set them. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 455 Strap, a razor-strop is, with us, generally called a razor-strap.
b. slang. A barber.
Hugh Strap, a barber, is one of the characters in Smollett's Roderick Random, 1748.
1865Hotten's Slang Dict. (ed. 3) 248 Strap, a barber.
9. A narrow band of iron or other metal used in the form of a plate, loop, or ring for fastening a thing in position, holding together timbers, parts of machinery, etc.
[1573–4,1603–4: see strop n. 4.] 1620in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Acc. (1896) 172 Twoe new strapps for bell wheles, waying vij li. 2s. 4d. 1753F. Price Brit. Carpenter (ed. 3) 17 The prick'd posts..being tyed to the back of the rafter..with iron straps. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1584 Straps to tie together the wall-plates at the external angles of the building. 1848Ronalds & Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. I. 234 The iron straps for strengthening the furnace. 1874Spon's Dict. Engin. viii. 2938 A strap is a band or strip of metal, usually curved to clasp or hold other parts; as a beam-strap, a spring-strap; especially the U-shaped part of a strap-head which clasps and holds the brasses.
10. A projection on a metal article, narrowed and flattened for screwing down to a wooden surface or for slipping under a metal plate; esp. each or one of the leaves of a strap-hinge.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 140 The cheeks or straps of the shovel. Ibid., The middle inside, where the handle is to be inserted, being kept open by the driving of an iron chisel down between the straps. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §630, q is the part [of a strap-hinge] screwed to the under side of the flap; and r the strap or part which is inserted under the top of the table, into an iron plate, s. 1847Brandon Anal. Goth. Archit. 100 That [hinge] in Plate 1 has the strap continued quite through, and is finished with an ornamental termination.
11.
†a. ? A piece of timber serving to fasten two objects together. Obs.
1588Shipping Lists of Dundee in D. Wedderburne Compt. Bk. (S.H.S.) 217 Ye said schip now come from norrovay contenand..thrie hundreth & fyve dousone daillis viij dousone of tymmer twentie strappis ane hundreth vnder⁓girths of aik fyve dousone of crockit tymmer ane thousand steyngis thrie small maistis. 1739C. Labelye Westm. Bridge 24 These Sides [of the Caisson] were fastened to the Bottom, or Grating, by 28 Pieces of Timber..call'd Straps, about 8 Inches broad, and about 3 Inches thick, reaching and lapping over the Top of the Sides.
b. Mining. (See quots.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 244 Straps, old iron way rails put up between the coal face and the front rank of props, in long-wall stalls, for supporting a tender roof. 1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 65 Strap, a plank supported at each end to uphold the roof strata. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Straps, lengths of wood, either round or flat and from four to eight feet long, placed up to the roof and across the working places of a mine. At either end they are supported by props called legs.
12. Bot.
a. (See quot. 1796.)
b. = ligule 1.
1796Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v., Strap. Ligula. An appendage to the leaf in some Grasses. 1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids v. 171 The labellum..is remarkable by being joined to the base of the column by a very narrow, thin, white strap. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Strap, the ligule of a ray floret in Compositæ.
13. Anglo-Irish. A term of abuse applied to a woman or girl.
1842S. Lover Handy Andy ii, ‘You infernal old strap!’ shouted he, as he clutched up a handful of bottles..and flung them at the nurse. c1848J. Keegan Leg. & Poems (1907) 454 You lie, you Orange strap..you were insulting every one you met.
14. slang. Credit, trust. Phr. on (the) strap.
1828Carr Craven Gloss., Strap, credit, trust. 1876W. Cudworth Round abt. Bradford 146 Meal and milk..were had from the neighbouring farmhouses, and in reckoning for the latter a system of ‘strap’ then existed which was easily checked by both buyer and seller. This was done by what was called a ‘milk stick’. a1890J. Brown Literæ laureatæ (1890) 106 With willing hand I drain the brazen tap, Or draw the cork, or estimate the strap. 1894Hall Caine Manxman iv. ix, It was a trick of the devil to deal with you, and forget to pay strap (the price). Ibid. v. xxi, Himself going round to pay the grocer what had been put on ‘strap’ while he was at Kinsale. 1896Daily News 21 Feb. 6/7 There was plenty to be had without paying for it. No one else paid that he saw. Whether they had ‘strap’ he did not know.
15. An energetic spell of work. (Cf. strap v. 4.)
1840P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 173 Had a stiff pianoforte lesson from Bertini, who by mere chance dropped in, and invited me to a good ‘strap’.
16. Typogr. Short for strap-line, sense 18 below.
1960A. Hutt Newspaper Design vii. 128 Essentially the strap is a single-line affair. 1981A. Graham-Yooll Forgotten Colony xviii. 238 A photograph of the man..was splashed over the front page of the Buenos Aires evening newspaper..with a strap that read: ‘This is how our English friends see us.’
17. attrib. and Comb.
a. simple attrib., as strap-end, strap-tab; with the meaning ‘made or consisting of a strap’, as (sense 3) strap-muzzle; also ‘that has a strap’, as strap watch; (sense 5 b) strap-handle;
b. objective, as strap-maker, strap-wielding;
c. similative, as strap-like adj.
1909T. Sheppard in Trans. Hull Sci. Club IV. ii. 62 The part with a swivel is attached to the brass at the *strap-end.
1892Photogr. Ann. II. 533 A polished mahogany stained case with leather *strap handle for carrying.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 785/2 At the same epoch there are formed anteriorly..two pairs of small *strap-like bodies.
1770Ann. Reg. 73/2 He was a clog *strap-maker.
1889Daily News 7 Nov. 7/2 When the ordinary *strap muzzle was used, if drawn too tightly, a dog could not drink.
1913E. T. Leeds Archæol. Anglo-Sax. Settlements iii. 56 Other objects include the bronze *strap-tab.
1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 July 9/4 (Advt.), *Strap Watch. Guaranteed accurate and dependable. Handsome case. Leather strap. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xxiv. 181, I dropped my eyes to my strap-watch.
1910I. MacIntosh in Poets of Ayrshire 331 His reputation for *strap-wielding made roots respected.
18. Special comb.: strap-bar, (a) (see quot.); (b) a bar which carries the strap-fork q.v. (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); strap-block (see quot.); strap-bolt n., a bolt with a flattened end for screwing down to a surface; strap-bolt v. trans., to fasten down with a strap-bolt; strap-bound a. in strap-bound-block (see quot.); strap brake, a brake consisting of a friction strap applied to a cylindrical bearing surface; esp. a dynamometer brake on this plan; strap-butt [butt n.11], leather for the making of bands, belts, straps, etc. (see quot. 1904); strap-cap, a cap with bands to fasten under the chin; strap-end Archæol., the metal fastening on a strap (sense 3); strap-fork, an apparatus with prongs for guiding the driving-belt of a machine from one pulley to another; strap-form a. Bot., ligulate (cf. strap-shaped a.); strap-game, a swindling game = fast and loose (Cent. Dict. 1891); strap handle Ceramics, a handle on a vessel such as a jug or ewer which is in the form of a loop and flattened like a narrow strap; hence strap-handled a.; strap-head (see quot. 1875); strap hide, a hide suitable for or used for the making of straps (cf. strap-butt); strap hinge, a hinge with long leaves or flaps for screwing down to a surface; also a hinge with one leaf lengthened for insertion into an iron plate; strap iron, (a) (see quot. 1833); (b) U.S., iron in the form of long narrow strips (cf. strap-rail); strap-laid a., (of a rope) made in a flat form by binding together two or more hawser-laid ropes; strap leather, leather for making straps; strap-line Typogr., a subsidiary heading printed above a headline; strap-oil slang, flogging with a strap; strap-ornament, ornamentation in strap-work; strap-oyster U.S. (local) (see quot.); strap-rail U.S., a flat railroad rail laid upon a continuous longitudinal sleeper (Cent. Dict. 1891); hence strap railroad, railway, road U.S., a railroad constructed with strap-rails; strap shoe, a shoe fastened by means of a strap across the instep; strap skein U.S., a strengthening iron band or a series of such bands placed upon a wooden spindle of an axle bar (see skein n.2 2); strap solder (see quot. 1896); † strap-spear-shaped a. Bot., (of a leaf) flattened or strap-shaped at the base with a spear-shaped head; strapwork (see quot. 1854); also attrib.; strap-worm, a cestoid worm of the family Ligulidæ; strapwort, a small annual plant belonging to the genus Corrigiola found in the extreme south-west of England. Also strap-shaped a.
1887J. A. Phillips & Bauerman Elem. Metall. (ed. 2) 647 There are also two bars, called ‘*strap-bars,’ connecting the first transverse bar at the wider end with the ring.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Strap-block (Nautical), a block with a strap around it, and an eye worked at the lower end for attachment to a hook upon deck for a purchase.
1795Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 359 They were all screwed down by *strap-bolts.
Ibid. 360 The lower end is *strap-bolted down upon the beams.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 157 *Strap-bound-blocks are single blocks, with a shoulder left on each side, at the upper part, to admit the strap through, a little above the pin.
1902S. Sheldon & H. Mason Altern.-Current Machines 240 The power output of the motor is absorbed in a *strap brake.
1885H. R. Proctor Tanning 200 In the case of *strap-butts, the currying is..far less elaborate. 1904P. N. Hasluck Harness Making ii. 38 Black strap butts are the best part of the hide from which the belly and shoulder have been cut.
1820in Alice M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. (1903) II. 501 The women..had two kinds... One was called a *strap-cap; it came under the chin; the other was called round-cord cap, and did not come over the ears.
1973Oxf. Univ. Gaz. CIII. Suppl. v. 18 Mr A. R. Lake: Presented a 12th-century bronze *strap-end from near Bicester, Oxon. 1977Antiquaries Jrnl. LXII. 420 Belt-buckles and strap-ends of the later Roman Empire.
1902Thornley Cotton Combing Machines 7 *Strap Fork.
1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. Vocab., *Strap-form, ligulate.
1847Knickerbocker XXIX. 281 He was accused of having ‘come the *strap-game’ over a native. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West vii. 140 A score of ‘smart Alecks’ relieved of their surplus cash by betting on the ‘strap game’.
1939J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iii. 134 The small size of the *strap handles is also an indication of date. 1972Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. XXXVIII. 65 A stoneware ewer, ovoid with a short spreading neck and double strap-handle.
1957V. G. Childe Dawn Europ. Civilization (ed. 6) vii. 131 *Strap-handled Jugs.
1864–86Webster, *Strap-head. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Strap-head, a journal-box secured by a strap to a connecting-rod.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4671, Brown *Strap Hides.
1737Hoppus Salmon's Country Build. Estim. (ed. 2) 107 *Strap Hinges, are sold by the Dozen. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §630 The end flaps..are made to put on or to take off as required, by means of what are called strap-hinges.
Ibid. §1584 Fix on each side of the principals two long double wrought-iron *strap irons (binding plates of iron)..secured by thirteen screw-bolts. 1883Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Jan. 199 The track is rudely built.., the rails being heavy strap-iron bolted upon string pieces.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1072 A three-inch *strap-laid rope.
1897C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxvi. (ed. 2) 414 Large sides are used for bag leather and for *strap leather.
1960A. Hutt Newspaper Design vii. 128 The use of subsidiary lines—*strap-lines over headings, tag-lines following them—has become a feature of headline practice. Ibid., Strap-lines are most suitable over double-column headlines. 1979Guardian 9 Oct. 10/7 Lord Beaverbrook..sometimes put a strap-line over the story saying that the piece didn't represent editorial policy.
1847Halliwell, *Strap-oil, a severe beating. It is a common joke on April 1st to send a lad for a pennyworth of strap-oil, which is generally ministered on his own person.
1895Daily News 27 May 6/6 A vase-shaped sugar castor,..chased with cherubs and *strap ornament in relief.
1881Ingersoll Oyster-Industr. (Hist. Fish. Industr. U.S.) 249 *Strap-oyster, the long, slender form which grows in mud.
1874B. F. Taylor World on Wheels i. xiii. 105 Years ago, he rode on a train of the old Toledo & Adrian Railway—*strap-rail at that. 1948Exhibit Finder (Museum of Sci. & Industry, Chicago) 3 The story of the early days of railroading is further traced by samples showing the progress of rail manufacture from strap rail, flat as a pancake, to the heavy crowned rail of today.
1911Webster, *Strap railroad or railway.
1861N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada xviii. 357 The first part of the journey was over what is termed a ‘*strap road,’ one of the most unsafe varieties of railway ever used.
1903Daily Chron. 10 Jan. 8/4 Patent leather *strap shoes.
1891Century Dict. *Strap-skein.
1885P. J. Davies Pract. Plumbing I. 44 *Strap Solder. 1896Ibid. II. 801 Strap solder, solder run into strips.
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 85 *Strap-spear-shaped (lineari-lanceolatum). Ibid. II. 30 Blossom of 3 petals, the 2 upper strap-spearshaped.
1854Fairholt Dict. Terms Art, *Strap-work, a peculiar kind of ornament, adopted extensively in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (particularly in Flanders and Germany)..which consists of a narrow fillet or band, folded and crossed, and occasionally interlaced with another. 1901Illustr. Lond. News CXVIII. 912 Above the monogram is a strapwork panel.
1854A. Adams etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 361 *Strap-Worms (Ligulidæ). 1896tr. Boas' Text-bk. Zool. 151 The Strap-worm, Ligula simplicissima, parasitic in the digestive tract of different Water-birds.
1799J. Hull Brit. Flora i. 66 Corrigiola littoralis, Sand *Strapwort.
▪ II. strap, v.1|stræp|
[f. strap n. (Cf. strop v.)]
1. a. trans. To furnish with a strap; to fasten, bind, or secure with a strap or with straps. Also with on, up, together.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 141 A general Proportion for strapping every Block in a Ship. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Strap, to fasten down with a Strap. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 35 Let your Mauls be well hooped and strapped with Iron. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, His scanty black trousers..were strapped very tightly over a pair of patched and mended shoes. 1843Lefevre Life Trav. Phys. III. iii. iv. 120 A tin case strapped over his shoulders. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 15, I strapped on my knapsack. 1861Sala Dutch Pict. xviii. 282 The barouche..had a hamper strapped behind it. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxiv, [She] asked..if all her portmanteaus were strapped up. 1874Thearle Naval Arch. §280. 292 They are also carefully strapped with two rivets on each side of the butt. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird i, He began to collect all this literature and to strap it neatly together. 1909Daily News 20 Oct. 7/1 ‘It is blowing a bit hard’, was the intrepid aviator's remark as he strapped himself to his seat on the machine.
b. Surg. To apply straps of adhesive plaster to (a wound, etc.); to fasten (dressing) on with plaster; to strap up, to dress and bandage (a wound or a person, i.e. his wound).
1843R. J. Graves Lect. Clin. Med. xxx. 385 But [he] expected some improvement from strapping the ulcer with real adhesive plaster. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. v. (1885) 110 He..strapped up my cut. 1902Munsey's Mag. XXVI. 583/2, I awoke and found Low..ready to take off my bandages and dress my wound... And after he had strapped me up again the baroness came in with my breakfast. 1905H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 118 The local pain and tenderness [should be] relieved..by strapping the hepatic region with narrow strips of plaster as if for fractured ribs.
c. To bind and hang (a person). Also with up. Also intr., to be hanged. Sc.
1815Scott Guy M. xxxiii, I am done up already, and if I must strap for it, all shall out. 1815― Let. in Lockhart III. xi. 381 A full account of the affair of 1745, with the trials..of the poor plaids who were strapped up at Carlisle.
d. To fasten, bind, or secure (a strap) tightly.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiv When they strapped the horse⁓girth ower my arms, I might hae judged what was biding me.
e. to strap (oneself) in: in an aircraft, to fasten one's safety belt. Also absol. (occas. with up or without adv.).
1913Flight 20 Sept. 1040/2 Neither the pilot nor passenger was strapped in. 1919J. Buchan Mr. Standfast i. ix. 173 He signalled to me to strap myself in..and he proceeded to practise ‘stunts’—the loop, the spinning nose-dive, and others. 1958‘Castle’ & ‘Hailey’ Flight into Danger v. 72 Better strap yourself in... You must have watched the pilot quite a lot. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File v. 31 The steward helped him strap in. 1970‘R. Llewellyn’ But we didn't get Fox vii. 69 She waited for me to strap, started a jet..and taxied down the loop. 1977R. Air Force Yearbk. 29 The excellent leverage of the straps is a noteworthy point and enables the pilots to strap in tightly and securely. 1977‘O. Jacks’ Autumn Heroes v. 69 Gerry Steinberg was strapping up beside his pilot.
f. intr. for pass. To admit of being fastened by means of a strap.
1924A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl i. v. 37 Grey shoes strapping across the instep with a buckle.
2. To beat with a strap or leather thong.
1735Dyche & Pardon Dict. 1832Min. Evid. Comm. Factories Bill 193 When I got home I saw her shoulders, and I said, ‘Ann, what is the matter?’ she said, ‘The over⁓looker has strapped me.’ 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. ii. 20 Many and many a time had his own father..strapped and beaten him. 1887Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Dec. 7/1 The two little girls were strapped again. With faces marked by the strap they fled.
3. To sharpen (a razor, knife) by applying it to a strap or strop: = strop v. Now rare or Obs.
1785J. Collier Musical Trav. 119 Still strapped he his inexorable razor. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 592/1 He had not ‘strapped’ the razor enough—or he had strapped it too much. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. (1881) 149 Strapping his knife on the edge of the kit. 1850Thackeray Pendennis lxviii, Mr. James Morgan laid out the silver dressing-case, and strapped the shining razor. 1856[see hone v.3].
4. intr. To work closely and energetically (at a task); to buckle to one's work. Also with adv., as to, away. slang.
1823Egan Grose's Dict. Vulgar T., Strap, to work. The kiddy would not strap, so he went on the scamp. 1836P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 103 Writing, reading, and strapping hard at my long-lost music. 1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. xxxi. 347 Pedestrians..strapping away at the rate of four miles and a half per hour. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 233/1 The strapping masters, or those who make the men (by extra supervision) ‘strap’ to their work, so as to do a greater quantity of labour in the usual time. 1891Cornhill Mag. July 65 Maisie strapped to, and got a berth as a nursery governess.
5. trans. To groom (a horse).
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Strap, to groom a horse. 1875My First ‘Wine’ 20 When the groom took off his [a horse's] clothes to strap him,..my hopes of winning..vanished altogether. 1881A. C. Grant Bush Life Queensld. xxv. (1882) 254 Tommy..leads the Bey [a racehorse] off to be thoroughly strapped and clothed [after the race].
6. To give credit for (goods). dial. or slang.
1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 423 ‘Yuh mun strap muh this missis wal Seterder neet.’..‘D' yuh strap here māaster?’ 1896Evesham Jrnl. 26 Sept. (E.D.D.), Witness said she had not got a sixpence, and prisoner offered to ‘strap’ it with her.
7. Comb.: strap-down a. Astronautics, applied to an inertial guidance system in which the gyroscopes are fixed to the vehicle rather than mounted in gimbals; strap-on a., that can be attached by a strap or straps; in Astronautics, applied to a booster rocket mounted on the outside of the main rocket so as to be jettisonable; also as n., such a booster.
[1962Fernandez & Macomber Inertial Guidance Engin. viii. 308 The strapped-down gyro reference package..has become widely used as a guidance aid in ballistic missiles where high accuracy is not required.] 1963Slater & Ausman in C. T. Leondes Guidance & Control Aerospace Vehicles iii. 82 A system of this sort..is sometimes inelegantly called ‘strapdown’. 1983Times 8 June 2/8 The IMU system uses specially designed and positioned gyros attached to the body of the missile, called strapdown gyros.
1966Sci. News 13 Aug. 107 Solid propellant strap-ons could be used to raise the Saturn V's orbital payload..to as much as 427,000 pounds. 1968New Scientist 31 Oct. 231 The vehicle..appeared to have a two-stage core with four strap-on boosters. 1975Aviation Week 12 May 21/1 Viewed from below a climbing booster, the procedure would appear like the petals of a flower opening if all four strap-ons separated at the same moment. 1981J. Sutherland Bestsellers x. 111 Such ‘novelties’ as strap-on shark fins. 1982Aviation Week 14 June 18 The U.S. vehicle..uses strap-on solid boosters and integral liquid propulsion to launch itself.
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[Alteration of strip v.]
(See quots.)
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Strap or Strip, to draw the last milk from a cow. 1881Leicester Gloss., Strap, to drain the last milk from the udder by a peculiar motion of the thumb and finger. Often metaphorically used for draining anything dry. |