Strap

Noun

 * 1) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
 * 2) A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
 * 3) * Addison:
 * A lively cobbler that had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.
 * 1) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
 * 2) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
 * 3) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
 * 4)  A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
 * 5)  A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
 * 6)  The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
 * 7)  The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
 * 8) A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
 * 9)  A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.

Derived terms

 * boot strap
 * shawl strap
 * stirrup strap
 * strapless

Verb

 * 1)  To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
 * 2)  To fasten or bind with a strap.
 * 3)  To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.

Verbs for Strap
affix—; braid—; buckle—; clasp—; detach —; reinforce—; rend—; sever—; slacken —; tense—; —binds; —couples; —curbs; —fetters; —impedes; —leashes; —links; restrains; —supports; —sustains.

Thesaurus
Mystik tape, Scotch tape, aculeate, acuminate, adhesive tape, anchor, band, bandage, barb, baste, bastinado, bathe, batten, beat, belabor, belt, bend, bind, bind up, birch, blacksnake, brace, bridle, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, bundle, call, cane, care for, cat, cellophane tape, chain, cinch, cloth tape, club, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cure, cuspidate, cut, diagnose, do up, doctor, drub, edge, enchain, entrammel, fascia, fasten, fetter, file, fillet, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flog, flux, friction tape, fustigate, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a whipping, give care to, give the stick, grind, gyve, hamper, handcuff, heal, hobble, hog-tie, hone, hopple, horsewhip, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lath, lay on, leash, ligula, ligule, list, make fast, manacle, masking tape, massage, minister to, moor, nurse, oilstone, operate on, option, peg down, physic, picket, pin down, pinion, pistol-whip, plank, plaster, plastic tape, point, pommel, poultice, pummel, purge, put, put and call, put in irons, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, remedy, reset, restrain, ribband, ribbon, right, rope, rub, scourge, secure, set, shackle, sharpen, shred, sjambok, slat, slip, smite, spank, spiculate, spill, splice, spline, splint, spread, spur, stock option, straddle, straitjacket, strake, strip, stripe, strop, swaddle, swathe, swinge, switch, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, taper, tether, thong, thrash, thump, ticker tape, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, treat, trounce, truncheon, truss, wallop, whale, whet, whip, whiplash, whop, wire, wrap, wrap up

Etymology
From a variant of strope:, from estrop:, from  stroppus:, from  στρόφος:, from στρέφω:.

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: rimeno
 * French:, ,
 * Greek: ιμάντας, λουρί,


 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Greek: λουρί
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Portuguese: tira(s)


 * Czech:
 * Greek: λουρί


 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Italian: striscia, listella


 * Portuguese:


 * Portuguese: tira (de metal)


 * Czech:
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * : slejf, rem

Anagrams

 * parts
 * prats
 * sprat
 * tarps
 * traps