strop

strop

S0817400 (strŏp)n.1. A strap, especially a short rope whose ends are spliced together to make a ring.2. A flexible strip of leather or canvas used for sharpening a razor.tr.v. stropped, strop·ping, strops To sharpen (a razor) on a strop.

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[Middle English strope, band of leather, probably from Old English, thong for an oar, from Latin stroppus, twisted cord, from Greek strophos, from strephein, to turn; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots.]

strop

(strɒp) n1. (Tools) a leather strap or an abrasive strip for sharpening razors. Also called: stropper 2. (Mechanical Engineering) a rope or metal band around a block or deadeye for support3. chiefly informal Brit a temper tantrum: he threw a strop and stormed off. vb, strops, stropping or stropped (Tools) (tr) to sharpen (a razor, etc) on a strop[C14 (in nautical use: a strip of rope): via Middle Low German or Middle Dutch strop, ultimately from Latin stroppus, from Greek strophos cord; see strophe]

strop

(strɒp)

n., v. stropped, strop•ping. n. 1. a device for sharpening razors, esp. a strip of leather or other flexible material. 2. a rope or a band of metal surrounding and supporting a block, deadeye, etc. v.t. 3. to sharpen on or as if on a strop. [before 1050; Middle English, Old English, c. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German strop, Old High German strupf, all < Latin stroppus, struppus twisted cord, headband, « Greek stróphos (compare strophe)] strop′per, n.

strop

Past participle: stropped
Gerund: stropping

Imperative
strop
strop

Present
I strop
you strop
he/she/it strops
we strop
you strop
they strop

Preterite
I stropped
you stropped
he/she/it stropped
we stropped
you stropped
they stropped

Present Continuous
I am stropping
you are stropping
he/she/it is stropping
we are stropping
you are stropping
they are stropping

Present Perfect
I have stropped
you have stropped
he/she/it has stropped
we have stropped
you have stropped
they have stropped

Past Continuous
I was stropping
you were stropping
he/she/it was stropping
we were stropping
you were stropping
they were stropping

Past Perfect
I had stropped
you had stropped
he/she/it had stropped
we had stropped
you had stropped
they had stropped

Future
I will strop
you will strop
he/she/it will strop
we will strop
you will strop
they will strop

Future Perfect
I will have stropped
you will have stropped
he/she/it will have stropped
we will have stropped
you will have stropped
they will have stropped

Future Continuous
I will be stropping
you will be stropping
he/she/it will be stropping
we will be stropping
you will be stropping
they will be stropping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stropping
you have been stropping
he/she/it has been stropping
we have been stropping
you have been stropping
they have been stropping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stropping
you will have been stropping
he/she/it will have been stropping
we will have been stropping
you will have been stropping
they will have been stropping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stropping
you had been stropping
he/she/it had been stropping
we had been stropping
you had been stropping
they had been stropping

Conditional
I would strop
you would strop
he/she/it would strop
we would strop
you would strop
they would strop

Past Conditional
I would have stropped
you would have stropped
he/she/it would have stropped
we would have stropped
you would have stropped
they would have stropped

Strop

A thin leather strap about two inches wide and twenty inches long used for burnishing a straight razor edge after the razor had been sharpened on a Whetstone (Whetrock). Razor strops were also sometimes used instead of switches for administering punishment to small boys.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	strop - a leather strap used to sharpen razorssharpener - any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper; "a knife sharpener"strap - an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
Verb	1.	strop - sharpen on a strop; "strop razors"sharpen - make sharp or sharper; "sharpen the knives"

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