strop
IPA: strˈɑp
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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.
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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.
- A strop is a flexible textile strap used to keep razors sharp.
- An essential, neglected item is a strop and compound for sharpening.
- It will end in tears, prophesied the naysayers, or a spectacular strop.
- PNB, a strop is used to finish sharpening, typically a razor … but not always.
- If you did not take the medicine "Ole Miss" would reach up and get the leather "strop" and
- A strop is similar to a sambok - a Seth Efrican Rhino hide whip but without the ergonomic handle.
- To complete the cycle, birds frequently, after eating the fruit, "strop" their beaks on the bark of a neighbouring tree.
- It should probably be the first question asked: are you just throwing a strop because I've insulted your precious whatever?
- The oars of Norwegian boats are worked not in rowlocks, or crutches, or between thole pins, as at home, but on a single thole pin, to which they are attached by a "strop" or loop.
- I tried to avoid making it another hee-haw memoir-turned-novel, but theres my daddy in there posing as my protagonists daddy, and the daddys got a jug of whisky and a razor strop drawn back to swing down on the back of the nerdy son.
- The very first time any police officer decides to stop this by making an arrest, they will throw the most monster strop, start screaming about police brutality and hurl themselves all over the street in a giant, organised version of a toddler tantrum.
- 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.