Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - strap
Strap
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n. & v. --n. 1 a strip of leather or other flexible material, often with a buckle or other fastening for holding things together etc. 2 a thing like this for keeping a garment in place. 3 a loop for grasping to steady oneself in a moving vehicle. 4 a a strip of metal used to secure or connect. b a leaf of a hinge. 5 Bot. a tongue-shaped part in a floret. 6 (prec. by the) punishment by beating with a strap. --v.tr. (strapped, strapping) 1 (often foll. by down, up, etc.) secure or bind with a strap. 2 beat with a strap. 3 (esp. as strapped adj.) colloq. subject to a shortage. 4 (often foll. by up) close (a wound) or bind (a part) with adhesive plaster. Phrases and idioms strap-work ornamentation imitating plaited straps. Derivatives strapper n. strappy adj. Etymology: dial. form of STROP
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I. noun Etymology: alteration of strop, from Middle English, band or loop of leather or rope, from Old English, thong for securing an oar, from Latin struppus band, ~, from Greek strophos twisted band, from strephein to twist Date: 1602 1. a narrow usually flat strip or thong of a flexible material and especially leather used for securing, holding together, or wrapping, something made of a ~ forming a loop , a strip of leather used for flogging, strop, a band, plate, or loop of metal for binding objects together or for clamping an object in position, a shoe fastened with a usually buckled ~, trollop, ~py adjective II. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: 1711 1. a. to secure with or attach by means of a ~, to support (as a sprained joint) with overlapping strips of adhesive plaster, bind, constrict, to beat or punish with a ~, strop, to cause to suffer from an extreme scarcity ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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