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.

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