Crossword clues for strop
strop
- Sharpening tool
- It can give you an edge
- Barbershop accessory
- Barber's device
- Barber's belt
- Barber belt
- Band on a barber's chair
- Sharpening strap
- Sharpen, as a blade
- Leather thong
- Sharpening device
- Sharpening belt
- Blade-bettering belt
- Razor-sharpening band
- Razor ___
- Leather sharpener used in old-timey barber shops
- Leather sharpener
- It'll give you an edge
- Beltlike sharpener
- Barbershop device
- Work on the cutting edge?
- Work on the cutting edge
- Whetting band
- Vintage barbershop item
- Tool for a razor's edge
- Shaving kit need
- Sharpen the razor
- Sharpen in a way
- Razor-sharpening tool in a barbershop
- Razor-sharpening item
- Razor honer
- Quaint item near a rotating chair
- Piece of leather used for sharpening razors
- Item mentioned in "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"
- It may be a piece of leather
- It gives you an edge
- It gives a barber an edge
- Dangler on a barber chair
- Cutting edge provider?
- Cutting edge improver
- Cutting edge enhancer
- Belt at the barbershop
- Barber's utensil
- Barber's leather
- Barber's chair attachment
- Barber's band
- Barber-chair dangler
- Barber accessory
- Bad temper — sharpen (a razor)
- "Sweeney Todd" tool
- Sharpener often made of leather
- Prepare to shave
- Razor sharpener
- Sharpen, as a razor
- Barber's razor sharpener
- Cutting edge creator?
- Barbershop band?
- Barber chair attachment
- Leather band for sharpening
- Barber's accessory
- Sharpen, in a way
- It's often seen next to a chair
- Tonsorial accessory
- It makes a cutting edge
- Barber's sharpener
- Cutting edge producer
- A leather strap used to sharpen razors
- Tonsorial device
- Barber's purchase
- Barber's aid
- Barber's gear
- Barber's item
- Barber's leather band
- Sharpen a razor
- Barber's tool
- Hone a razor
- Barber's need
- Device for Figaro
- Rope sling for cargo
- Razor accessory
- Honing implement
- Razor's edger
- Ltem for Figaro
- Perk up a straightedge
- Honer for razors
- End with Romeo in fit of temper
- Small drink knocked over – display of anger results
- Fit of bad temper
- Paddy drinks up
- Drinks to lift a bad mood
- Put an edge on
- Bad mood
- Barber's implement
- Give an edge
- Barbershop item
- "Sweeney Todd" prop
- Barbershop tool
- Barbershop sharpener
- Tonsorial tool
- Blade sharpener
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strop \Strop\, n. [See Strap.] A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
Strop \Strop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stropped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stropping.] To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
Strop \Strop\, n. [Cf. F. estrope, ['e]trope, fr. L. struppus. See Strop a strap.] (Naut.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "loop or strap on a harness," probably from Old French estrop, making it the older and more correct form of strap (n.), replaced by it from 16c. Specific sense of "leather strap used for sharpening razors" first recorded 1702. The verb in this sense is from 184
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 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, in this sense also called ''razor strop''. 2 (context British English) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.) 3 (context nautical English) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To strap. 2 (''recorded since 1842; now most used'') To hone (a razor) with a strop. Etymology 2
vb. (context computing English) 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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Usage examples of "strop".
He was at sea long before you were born, and although he is still not very good at stropping a block nor serving a cable he has other seamanlike qualities that will no doubt occur to your mind.
Last month, having cut my razor strop so badly that it was of no further use, I was foolish enough to leave it hanging in a room in the Biltmore Hotel in New York.
He was working at it with the horsehide strop now, holding the sword between his knees as he worked and taking a certain cranky pride in the quality of his work.
Age fifteen, Ettie herself finally leaving school, working for twenty cents an hour, sharpening knives and chisels in a paperboard factory, stropping blades on long, speeding bands of leather.
Immediately the cats converged on her, stropping the legs of the pony, who regarded this activity with mild surprise and didn't so much as twitch a muscle.
He pushed the nose of the amatol block back off the wire, but the wire strop securing it to the compressed air cylinder held it in such a position that it remained with its nose nine inches clear of the water.
Now I can concentrate on the job without distraction, and she took up the cut-throat razor that lay ready on the table-top and stropped it on the leather with quick practised strokes.
It leans over and head-butts her knee, strops the scent glands between its ears all over her skirt.
The heavy clamp, secured by a strop to the bulwarks, was snapped on, the men on deck shackling on the long pennant wire attached to one of the three-ton anchor buoys and a winch drum high up on the corner of the rig paying out cable as the tow began, out to the pinprick light of the anchor position marker rising and falling in the swell.
The fingers rubbed a small amount of neat's-foot oil into the strop, slowly, without hurry.
He stropped the blade on a piece of leather and mixed a bowl of soapsuds.
His nostrils were dark and fiery as he labored around me, pumping up the chair and stropping his razor.
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.