strop

IPA: strˈɑp

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.
(nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) A bad mood or temper.
(slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.

To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
(obsolete) To strap.
(computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.

Examples of "strop" in Sentences

Supporters thus got into a teenage strop.
The cutting edge is finished using a strop.
As to blanking I've had a bit of a quiet strop.
The barrel sling not pictured is made with a strop.
I had a meeting with Simon and threw a right strop.
Accept that dispute exists and strop trying to censor.
The strop may be a hanging strop or a hand held paddle.
It now has been restored and is available at razor strop.
An essential, neglected item is a strop and compound for sharpening.
To sharpen or finish the blade using a suspended strop the razor is pushed toward the suspension ring while both the back and the cutting edge lie flat on the strop and with the back of the blade as shown in the picture below. No pressure should be applied on the cutting edge.