English-German translations for strop

• Riemen der
• Streichriemen der

Definition of strop

• A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute , or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called ''razor strop''
• A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it
• To strap
• 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
• A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond

Examples

• One should strop the razor before each shave.

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