1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 93/2 End straps for tying, or buckling the ends to the Belly Girths.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. i. 22 To release his own rifle from the strap.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 317 The leather part of bridles and other straps usually pass through metal rings, after which they are fastened with buckles.

1885 H. A. Dillon Fairholt's Costume in Eng. (ed. 3) II. (Gloss.) s.v. Straps as well as leathern points were used in great numbers for the adjustment of armour.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. 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.

1901 P. 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.

1915 Blackwood's 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.

1790 W. Nicholson in Repertory of Arts (1796) V. 157 These three cylinders are connected, either by cogs or straps at the edges of each.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 47 The endless strap or belt which descends from the driving shaft to the steam pulley.

1860 All Year Round 26 May 163 The straps glide smoothly enough about the wheels [of the machine].

1573–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 122 Mendinge of the stropes of iij belles, xij d.

1603–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 152 Iron stroppes and bolts and kayes for the belles.]

1620 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 172 Twoe new strapps for bell wheles, waying vij li. 2s. 4d.

1753 F. Price Brit. Carpenter (ed. 3) 17 The prick'd posts..being tyed to the back of the rafter..with iron straps.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1584 Straps to tie together the wall-plates at the external angles of the building.

1848 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson tr. F. Knapp Chem. Technol. I. 234 The iron straps for strengthening the furnace.

1874 Spons' 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.

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 140 The cheeks or straps of the shovel.

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 140 The middle inside, where the handle is to be inserted, being kept open by the driving of an iron chisel down between the straps.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage 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.

1847 R. Brandon & J. A. Brandon Anal. Gothick Archit. I. 100 That [hinge] in Plate 1 has the strap continued quite through, and is finished with an ornamental termination.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy ii ‘You infernal old strap!’ shouted he, as he clutched up a handful of bottles..and flung them at the nurse.

a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 454 You lie, you Orange strap..you were insulting every one you met.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Strap, credit, trust.

1876 W. Cudworth Round about 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’.

a1890 J. Brown Literæ laureatæ (1890) 106 With willing hand I drain the brazen tap, Or draw the cork, or estimate the strap.

1894 H. Caine Manxman iv. ix It was a trick of the devil to deal with you, and forget to pay strap (the price).

1894 H. Caine Manxman v. xxi Himself going round to pay the grocer what had been put on ‘strap’ while he was at Kinsale.

1896 Daily 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.

1840 P. 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’.

1960 A. Hutt Newspaper Design vii. 128 Essentially the strap is a single-line affair.

1981 A. 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.’

1887 J. A. Phillips 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.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. 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.

1795 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 359 They were all screwed down by strap-bolts.

1795 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 360 The lower end is strap-bolted down upon the beams.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & 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.

1902 S. Sheldon & H. Mason Alternating-current Machines 240 The power output of the motor is absorbed in a strap brake.

1885 H. R. Procter Text-bk. Tanning 200 In the case of strap-butts, the currying is..far less elaborate.

1904 P. 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.

1820 in 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.

1973 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 103 Suppl. v. 18 Mr A. R. Lake: Presented a 12th-century bronze strap-end from near Bicester, Oxon.

1977 Antiquaries Jrnl. 62 420 Belt-buckles and strap-ends of the later Roman Empire.

1902 T. Thornley Cotton Combing Machines 7 Strap Fork.

1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) Vocab. Strap-form, ligulate.

1847 Knickerbocker 29 281 He was accused of having ‘come the strap-game’ over a native.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West vii. 140 A score of ‘smart Alecks’ relieved of their surplus cash by betting on the ‘strap game’.

1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iii. 134 The small size of the strap handles is also an indication of date.

1972 Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. 38 65 A stoneware ewer, ovoid with a short spreading neck and double strap-handle.

1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) vii. 131 Strap-handled Jugs.

1864–86 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Strap-head.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Strap-head, a journal-box secured by a strap to a connecting-rod.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4671 Brown Strap Hides.

1737 E. Hoppus Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 107 Strap Hinges, are sold by the Dozen.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §630 The end flaps..are made to put on or to take off as required, by means of what are called strap-hinges.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1584 Fix on each side of the principals two long double wrought-iron strap irons (binding plates of iron)..secured by thirteen screw-bolts.

1883 Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Jan. 199 The track is rudely built.., the rails being heavy strap-iron bolted upon string pieces.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1072 A three-inch strap-laid rope.

1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xxvi. 414 Large sides are used for bag leather and for strap leather.

1960 A. 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.

1960 A. Hutt Newspaper Design vii. 128 Strap-lines are most suitable over double-column headlines.

1979 Guardian 9 Oct. 10/7 Lord Beaverbrook..sometimes put a strap-line over the story saying that the piece didn't represent editorial policy.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II 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.

1895 Daily News 27 May 6/6 A vase-shaped sugar castor,..chased with cherubs and strap ornament in relief.

1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 249 Strap-oyster, the long, slender form which grows in mud.

1874 B. 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.

1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail 33 Some of the old strap-rails were in use on the Boston and Maine when I went on that road.

1948 Exhibit 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.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Strap railroad or railway.

1861 N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada & U.S. 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.

1903 Daily Chron. 10 Jan. 8/4 Patent leather strap shoes.

1891 Cent. Dict. Strap-skein.

1885 P. J. Davies Standard Pract. Plumbing I. 44 Strap Solder.

1896 P. J. Davies Standard Pract. Plumbing (ed. 4) II. 801 Strap solder, solder run into strips.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 85 Strap-spear-shaped (lineari-lanceolatum).

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 30 Blossom of 3 petals, the 2 upper strap-spearshaped.

1854 F. W. Fairholt 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.

1901 Illustr. London News 118 912 Above the monogram is a strapwork panel.

1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 361 Strap-Worms (Ligulidæ).

1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 151 The Strap-worm, Ligula simplicissima, parasitic in the digestive tract of different Water-birds.

1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora i. 66 Corrigiola littoralis, Sand Strapwort.

1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. To fasten down with a Strap.

1832 Min. 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.’

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 20 Many and many a time had his own father..strapped and beaten him.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Dec. 7/1 The two little girls were strapped again. With faces marked by the strap they fled.

1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 52 Still strapped he his inexorable razor.

1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 592/1 He had not ‘strapped’ the razor enough—or he had strapped it too much.

1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 160 Strapping his knife on the edge of the kit.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxx. 300 Mr. James Morgan laid out the silver dressing-case, and strapped the shining razor.

1856 Leisure Hour 5 13/1 Honing and strapping his stock of razors.

1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Strap, to work. The kiddy would not strap, so he went on the scamp.

1836 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 103 Writing, reading, and strapping hard at my long-lost music.

1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xxxi. 347 Pedestrians..strapping away at the rate of four miles and a half per hour.

1851 H. Mayhew London 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.

1891 Cornhill Mag. July 65 Maisie strapped to, and got a berth as a nursery governess.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 302 Strap, to groom a horse.

1875 My First ‘Wine’ 20 When the groom took off his [a horse's] clothes to strap him,..my hopes of winning..vanished altogether.

1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland (1882) xxv. 254 Tommy..leads the Bey [a racehorse] off to be thoroughly strapped and clothed [after the race].

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 423 ‘Yuh mun strap muh this missis wal Seterder neet.’..‘D' yuh strap here māaster?’

1896 Evesham Jrnl. 26 Sept. (E.D.D.) Witness said she had not got a sixpence, and prisoner offered to ‘strap’ it with her.

1962 Fernandez & 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.]

1963 Slater & Ausman in C. T. Leondes Guidance & Control Aerospace Vehicles iii. 82 A system of this sort..is sometimes inelegantly called ‘strapdown’.

1983 Times 8 June 2/8 The IMU system uses specially designed and positioned gyros attached to the body of the missile, called strapdown gyros.

1966 Sci. 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.

1968 New Scientist 31 Oct. 231 The vehicle..appeared to have a two-stage core with four strap-on boosters.

1975 Aviation 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.

1981 J. Sutherland Bestsellers x. 111 Such ‘novelties’ as strap-on shark fins.

1982 Aviation Week 14 June 18 The U.S. vehicle..uses strap-on solid boosters and integral liquid propulsion to launch itself.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 303 Strap or Strip, to draw the last milk from a cow.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 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.