strop
To hone with a stropTo hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
Meaning
3 sensesTo hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
One should strop the razor before each shave.
sharpen on a strop
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.
(obsolete)To strap.
Origin
Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honSame as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method.
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Forms
strops, stropping, stropped, stroppedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle