Word Meanings - STRAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. (more info) 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. A lively cobbler that

Additional info about word: STRAP

A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. (more info) 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison. 2. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap. 3. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop. 4. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. Specifically: --

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRAP)

• Ligament
• Bond
• band
• bandage
• ligature
• brace
• strap
• girth

Related words: (words related to STRAP)

• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• LIGATURE
  A curve or line connecting notes; a slur. (more info) 1. The act of binding. 2. Anything that binds; a band or bandage. A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage. A thread or wire
• BANDAGE
  1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• STRAPWORK
  A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
• BRACELET
  1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. 2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson.
• LIGAMENT
  1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or
• GIRTH
  1. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse. 2. The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives
• BRACE
  A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion
• LIGAMENTAL; LIGAMENTOUS
  Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
• STRAPPADO
  A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated. Shak. (more info) strappado, from strappare to pull,
• BRACER
  1. That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. 2. A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer. 3. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to
• STRAPPER
  1. One who uses strap. 2. A person or thing of uncommon size.
• STRAP
  A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. (more info) 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. A lively cobbler that
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• VAMBRACE
  The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
• VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
  Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)
• ESTRAPADE
  The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• BLACKSTRAP
  1. A mixture of spirituous liquor and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd. 2. Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
• HUSBANDAGE
  The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
• IMBRACERY
  Embracery.
• UNBRACE
  To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.