strop

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  1. noun A strap, especially a short rope whose ends are spliced together to make a ring.
  2. noun A flexible strip of leather or canvas used for sharpening a razor.
  3. transitive verb To sharpen (a razor) on a strop.

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  • He had already bought himself a whetstone and a leather strop, planning, he said, to get those tools back in shape over the winter. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 01 - July 1997
  • Most of them had been witness to his original strop, and also knew his street reputation, and so knew better than to irritate him further. —  EQMM, May2006
  • This was all very well when you were heading for a Grand Duke's residence to leave cards, or proceeding to the Embassy; but you felt rather the beggar on horseback when the object of the drive was merely to procure a razor-strop at a big store in replacement of one mislaid on the journey. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
  • 'I never expected to see you again in this world I can't find my razor-strop,' says I; I've lost my razor-strop Never mind your strop,' says he. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
  • Don't grab it--an easy position means an easy shave A poor strop will spoil the best razor ever made To buy a good razor and a cheap strop is pour economy If you prefer a swing strop, pull it as tightly as you can. —  The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
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  1. Middle English strope, band of leather, probably from Old English, thong for an oar, from Latin stroppus, twisted cord, from Greek strophos, from strephein, to turn; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The older and more correct form of strap; from Middle English strop, strope, from Anglo-Saxon stropp (= Dutch strop, etc.), from Latin stroppus, struppus, a strap: see strap.
  2. from strop, n.
 

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