LekhoriLekhoriA long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
a lively cobbler, that […] had scarce passed a day in his life without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loo...
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