Blade sharpeners

Usage examples of strops.

It leans over and head-butts her knee, strops the scent glands between its ears all over her skirt.

He was turned out of his nice cabin, and packed in with his belongings to share that of Lieutenant Kurt, whose luck it was to be junior, and the bird-headed officer, still swearing slightly, and carrying strops and aluminium boot-trees and weightless hair-brushes and hand-mirrors and pomade in his hands, resumed possession.

Mallory and Miller sliced those away with their knives, then led the three cylinders in line astern, using short strops that had been provided for that precise purpose.