Definitions for strop

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Spelling: [strop]

IPA: /strɒp/

Strop is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in strop (oprst).

Definitions for strop

noun

1. any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
2. Also, strap. Nautical, Machinery. a rope or a band of metal surrounding and supporting a block, deadeye, etc. a metal band surrounding the pulley of a block to transmit the load on the pulley to its hook or shackle. a rope sling, as for handling cargo. a ring or grommet of rope.

verb (used with object)

1. to sharpen on or as if on a strop.

Origin of strop

before 1050; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with Dutch, Low German strop; all probably Latin stroppus, variant of struppus strap

Examples for strop

For use, a piece is pasted on the strop and moistened with a little oil.

In blocks, confines the hook and thimble in the strop home to the scores.

At the mouth are two beckets or iron rings, through which the strop is rove.

Annixter grunted good-humouredly, and turned to strop his razor.

Hang the strop on a hook, and with the left hand stretch as tightly as possible.

The strop should be not less than twenty inches long and two inches wide.

Lay the blade flat on the further end of the strop, as shown in Fig.

During the operation the back of the razor should never be taken from the strop.

Always hold the blade at the same angle, and perfectly flat on the strop.

This is better than to strop knives and other tools on your boots.