strop
(noun) a leather strap used to sharpen razors
strop
(verb) sharpen on a strop; “strop razors”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
strop (plural strops)
A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop.
(British) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
(nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
• huff
strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
(obsolete) To strap.
(recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)
(computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
strop (plural strops)
(slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
• Ports, Prost, SPORT, ports, sport, torps, trops.
Source: Wiktionary
Strop, n. Etym: [See Strap.]
Definition: A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
Strop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stropped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stropping.]
Definition: To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
Strop, n. Etym: [Cf. F. estrope, Ă©trope, fr. L. struppus. See Strop a strap.] (Naut.)
Definition: A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
