Wiktionary
n. 1 A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe 2 The backbone of a book 3 A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine
Usage examples of "backstrap".
About the barrel of each was a surcingle and connected with it by a backstrap was something analogous to a breeching in Earth horse harness.
From the width of the backstrap it was evident that the book had been a fat one.
The memory of fawn backstrap, cut from the side of the spine, hung at the back of his tongue, a savory feast of wondrous delight.
He gave up, ordered a formal report filed with central battle headquarters on Nilea, sought under his backstrap for a persistent nibbler that had been pestering him all day.
They had plenty of jerky and smoked fish, but every so often Smoke got a hankering for venison, the tender backstrap fried in a skillet or slow-roasted on a spit above a bed of coals.
Pattera and her sister working away, Pattera at the big loom, her sister Serai at one of the backstrap looms.
When the fire had burned down he skewered the backstraps on two greenwood sticks and propped the sticks with rocks over the coals.
Averitt shook off the backstraps of the portable radio and carefully placed it out of the way.
Then he loosened the backstraps to their outmost, and put them around his wrist.
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