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- English Word Strap Definition A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- English Word Strap Definition The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- English Word Strap Definition The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- English Word Strap Definition A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
- English Word Strap Definition To beat or chastise with a strap.
- English Word Strap Definition To fasten or bind with a strap.
- English Word Strap Definition To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
- English Word Strap-shaped Definition Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
- English Word Strappado Definition 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.
- English Word Strappado Definition To punish or torture by the strappado.
- English Word Strappadoes Definition of Strappado
- English Word Strapped Definition of Strap
- English Word Strapper Definition One who uses strap.
- English Word Strapper Definition A person or thing of uncommon size.
- English Word Strapping Definition of Strap
- English Word Strapping Definition Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
- English Word Strapple Definition To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
- English Word Strapwork Definition A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
- English Word Strass Definition A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.
- English Word Strata Definition pl. of Stratum.
- English Word Strata Definition of Stratum
- English Word Stratagem Definition An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
- English Word Stratagemical Definition Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
- English Word Stratarithmetry Definition The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
- English Word Strategetic Definition Alt. of Strategetical
- English Word Strategetical Definition Strategic.
- English Word Strategetics Definition Strategy.
- English Word Strategi Definition of Strategus
- English Word Strategic Definition Alt. of Strategical
- English Word Strategical Definition Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.