STRAP

I. noun Etymology: alteration of strop, from Middle English, band or loop of leather or rope, from Old English, thong for securing an oar, from Latin struppus band, ~, from Greek strophos twisted band, from strephein to twist Date: 1602 1. a narrow usually flat strip or thong of a flexible material and especially leather used for securing, holding together, or wrapping, something made of a ~ forming a loop , a strip of leather used for flogging, strop , a band, plate, or loop of metal for binding objects together or for clamping an object in position, a shoe fastened with a usually buckled ~, trollop , ~py adjective II. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: 1711 1. a. to secure with or attach by means of a ~, to support (as a sprained joint) with overlapping strips of adhesive plaster, bind , constrict , to beat or punish with a ~, strop , to cause to suffer from an extreme scarcity