Word Meanings - STRAPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.

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• 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.
• ENTANGLE
  1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. 2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence,
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• 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.
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• 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,
• STRAPPER
  1. One who uses strap. 2. A person or thing of uncommon size.
• ENTANGLER
  One that entangles.
• 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
• ESTRAPADE
  The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
• DISENTANGLE
  1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To extricate from complication and
• 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.
• CHOKE-STRAP
  A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
• UNDERSTRAPPER
  A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.
• UNENTANGLE
  To disentangle.
• PENTANGLE
  A pentagon. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERSTRAPPING
  Becoming an understrapper; subservient. Sterne.
• DISENTANGLEMENT
  The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.