strapper
IPA: strˈæpɝ
noun
- A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
- A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.
- One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.
- (archaic) A cow which yields a small amount of milk.
- 1905, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature:
- (electronics) A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.
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Examples of "strapper" in Sentences
- A strapper is a junior position looking after race horses.
- Turk what noteworthy distinction is there between vizier and sandal-strapper?
- I have put an under-strapper upon writing a twopenny pamphlet [13] to give an account of the whole design.
- Still less so was the dealer's under-strapper, to whom fell the task of escorting her through the streets of Dublin.
- Then they give a gun to an under-strapper, telling him to stand in some prominent part of the woods, _his_ gun well in sight.
- If we were to be blessed with an aristocracy he would rather it should not resemble that of William the Bastard but of Jack the Strapper.
- "And his beadle, your lordship," added the host, and the under-strapper inside the greatcoat saluted the Colonel with a flourish of his tipstaff.
- I was a young strapper about sixteen years old, and thinking about wenches pretty hard and wanting something to help me out wid the one I liked best.
- These began with the despatching of the mare, badly cut, and apparently lame on every leg, in charge of the remains of the under-strapper, to her destination.
- Jemmie Ferguson the old strapper, whose occupation like that of Othello's was all gone, saw it start with a heavy heart, and crowds turned out to bid it good-bye.
- A conveyor in combination with a strapper for strapping objects on the conveyor automatically as the conveyor is automatically stopped in many pre selected places.
- And it was indeed in Nassau Street, and, moreover, in full view of the bow window of Kildare Street Club, that the cup of the under-strapper's misfortunes brimmed over.
- But as you are aware, a couple of days ago we had received some final evaluation of the environmental testing which showed that one strapper (ph) on the P Street facility did test positive, and for that reason we had pursued that at that time.