The Collaborative International Dictionary
Razor \Ra"zor\ (r[=a]"z[~e]r), n. [OE. rasour, OF. rasur, LL. rasor: cf. F. rasoir, LL. rasorium. See Raze, v. t., Rase, v. t.]
A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head; also called a straight razor. ``Take thee a barber's razor.''
--Ezek. v. 1.a device used for shaving, having a replaceable blade with a very sharp edge; also called safety razor. Also a similar device, made of plastic, in which the blade is neither replaceable nor can be sharpened, intended to be discarded after the blade dulls -- called a disposable razor.
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(Zo["o]l.) A tusk of a wild boar. Razor fish. (Zo["o]l.)
A small Mediterranean fish ( Coryph[ae]na novacula), prized for the table.
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The razor shell.
Razor grass (Bot.), a West Indian plant ( Scleria scindens), the triangular stem and the leaves of which are edged with minute sharp teeth.
Razor grinder (Zo["o]l.), the European goat-sucker.
Razor shell (Zo["o]l.), any marine bivalve shell belonging to Solen and allied genera, especially Solen ensis (or Ensatella ensis), and Solen Americana, which have a long, narrow, somewhat curved shell, resembling a razor handle in shape. Called also razor clam, razor fish, knife handle.
Razor stone. Same as Novaculite.
Razor strap, or razor strop, a strap or strop used in sharpening razors.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A broad, heavy leather strop, designed to whet a razor on 2 A similar strap, used as a spanking instrument 3 A birch bracket fungus. n. 1 A broad, heavy leather strop, designed to whet a razor on 2 A similar strap, used as a spanking instrument 3 A birch bracket fungus.
Wikipedia
A razor strop (or razor strap) is a flexible strip of leather, canvas, denim fabric, balsa wood, or other soft material, used to straighten and polish the blade of a straight razor, a knife, or a woodworking tool like a chisel. In many cases stropping re-aligns parts of the blade edge that have been bent out of alignment. In other cases, especially when abrasive polishing compound is used, stropping may remove a small amount of metal. Stropping can also burnish (i.e. push metal around) on the blade.
The strop may be a hanging strop or a hand-held paddle. Various abrasive compounds may be applied to the strop to aid in polishing the blade while stropping to obtain a mirror-like finish. Common abrasive compounds include: half micron diamonds, green Chromium(III) oxide, white rouge (aluminum oxide), and Jeweller's rouge (Iron oxide).
Usage examples of "razor strop".
I wondered why my father had asked me to come along since he had taken to beating me with the razor strop once or twice a week and we weren't getting along.
Time and again, just as I was dashing out for something, I would see the father giving Stanley a drubbing with the razor strop, a sight that made my blood boil.
Round his left wrist he wore a broad leather razor strop, which was held in place by two press-studs.
When she emerged, carrying a razor, a razor strop, and several other tools of the barbering trade, she pulled another chair from under the wagon sheet and insisted that Gus sit on it.
Herbie Westerman's father came down the stairs and, with a purposeful air, took his razor strop off the hook on the kitchen wall.
A moment later, Grandma appeared on the back porch, the old razor strop trembling in her hand.
I said, and followed him, on down the hall to the bathroom and stopped at the door while he took the razor strop from the hook and I stepped back so he could come out and we went on.
He had lied, and the Judge had gone upstairs and returned with his heaviest razor strop.
But any young person who didn't praise the Lord would feel his razor strop.
He'd done so only once in his life, at age twelve, and his father had promptly hauled him outside and whipped his hairless bare ass with a razor strop.
The driver brought her home that way, half-naked, and when Jimmie saw the condition she was in he was so furious with her that he took his razor strop and he belted the piss out of her, and she liked it, the bitch that she was.