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Strap, Strop, n. Also: strapt, strep, stroap. [ME and e.m.E. stroppe (1357), strope (Caxton), strap (1584-7), strop (1702), OF estrope, L. struppus, stroppus, also OE (once) strop. Cf. (M)Du., (M)LG strop.]

1. A strap, band or thong. a. Used to restrain animals. b. Of rope. c. ? Ropes or a further example of 2. d. In coll. use or the material from which straps, etc. are made, thonging.a. 1508–9 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 212.
[To buy 2] helteris [and 2] strepis 15.. Lord Fergus' Gaist 83.
This littill gaste … it wald play and hop Abowt the heid ane stre strop 1661 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 21.
They … went into the petitioners byre and cutted the stroaps of eight heid of bestiall that were bound thereb. 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 40.
For 3 faddum of great tow to be a strap to the blok for uptaking the great cannounc. 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 223.
[He] gott by sea severall saills and strapts be way of wrackd. 1685 New Mills Manuf. 105.
Anent allowing of the stocken weavers oyle, strap and cords ordered that they be allowed oyle but noe strap nor cord

2. A metal strap used to attach one piece of timber to another. b. ? A piece of timber with a similar function. 1543 Edinb. Hammermen 162b.
For viij pvnd & ane half of irne werk to be twa stropis to ane bridell to the hous v s.b. 1588 Dundee Shipping L. 217.
Thrie hundreth & fyve dousone daillis viij dousone of tymmer twentie strappis ane hundreth vndergirths of aik