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What does strop mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: strops |
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| strop - a leather strap used to sharpen razors | ||
| strap whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging | ||
| sharpener any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper; "a knife sharpener" | ||
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| strop - sharpen on a strop; "strop razors" | ||
| sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- strop (Noun)
A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute notably canvas, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop. - strop (Noun)
A bad mood or temper. - strop (Noun)
A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. - strop (Verb)
To strap. - strop (Verb)
Recorded since 1842; now most used To hone a razor with a strop.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- strop (n.)
A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3. - strop (v. t.)
To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor. - strop (n.)
A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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strop
strop, n. a strip of leather, or of wood covered with leather, &c., for sharpening razors.—v.t. to sharpen on a strop:—pr.p. strop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. stropped. [Older form of strap.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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strop
etrope, a piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and used to surround the body of a block; so that the latter may be hung to any particular station about the masts, yards, or rigging. Thus, fig. 37. and 38. in plate II. represent two block-strops of different sorts. See BLOCK and EYE.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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strop
A piece of rope, spliced generally into a circular wreath, and used to surround the body of a block, so that the latter may be hung to any particular situation about the masts, yards, or rigging. Strops are also used occasionally to fasten upon any large rope for the purpose of hooking a tackle to the eye or double part of the strop, in order to extend or pull with redoubled effort upon the same rope; as in setting up the rigging, where one hook of the tackle is fixed in a strop applied to the particular shroud, and the other to its laniard.
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