strap

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  1. noun A long narrow strip of pliant material such as leather.
  2. noun Such a strip equipped with a buckle or similar fastener for binding or securing objects.
  3. noun A thin flat metal or plastic band used for fastening or clamping objects together or into position.
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  • Opening his robe, he loosened a leather strap Bound to his body by the strap was a bundle approximately sixteen inches long and four inches in diameter, wrapped in cloth and supported by splintlike lengths of rough wood Ramses knew what it was, and he knew what was going to happen. —  52316_ApeWhoGuardsTheBalance
  • He reached to the ceiling for a strap, a kind of harness, and put it around him, buckled it tight across his chest. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • You slide your hand through the bottom strap and hold onto the upper strap which is covered with a PVC handle. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • I just recently learned to know where your camera strap is and what it might be hooked onto. —  PW FULL RSS FEED
  • The matching rivets on the strap are also brushed, lending the watch a tool-like appearance I find appealing. —  Watch Report
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  1. Alteration of strop.

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  1. Also, more orig., strop, dial. strope (the form strop being also in reg. English use in some senses); from Middle English stropp, strope, from Anglo-Saxon stropp = Middle Dutch strop, stroop, Dutch strop = Middle Low German strop = Middle High German strupfe, strüpfe, German struppe, strüppe, strippe = Swedish stropp = Danish strop, a strap, = Old French estrope, French étrope = Spanish Portuguese estrovo, an oar-thong, from Latin stroppus, struppus, a thong, strap, fillet, akin to Greek στρόφος, a twisted band, from στρέφειν, twist: see strophe. Doublet of strop.
  2. from strap, n.
 

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