strap

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A long narrow strip of pliant material such as leather.
• noun Such a strip equipped with a buckle or similar fastener for binding or securing objects.
• noun A thin flat metal or plastic band used for fastening or clamping objects together or into position.
• noun A narrow band formed into a loop for grasping with the hand.
• noun A razor strop.
• noun A strip of leather used in flogging.
• transitive verb To fasten or secure with a strap.
• transitive verb To beat with a strap.
• transitive verb To sharpen (a razor, for example).

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In machinery: The narrow band which surrounds the disk of a steam-engine eccentric and forms the bearing-surface for the eccentric-rod. It is usually separate from the latter and bolted to it, generally in two parts to permit adjustment for wear.
• noun An enveloping band of steel, somewhat U-shaped, which passes around the outside of the brasses at the ends of a steam-engine connecting-rod, and, by means of bolts, wedges, and gib and key, makes a solid unit of the connecting-rod end or stub, while providing for easy adjustment or renewal as wear occurs upon the bearings on the pins.
• noun In iron ship-building, a narrow-strip of plate or a bar with a wide flange used to unite two parts to each of which the strap is riveted. See also butt-strap and seam-strap.
• To fasten or bind with a strap: especially in the sense of compressing and holding very closely: often with up or down.
• To beat or chastise with a strap.
• To sharpen with a strap; strop, as a razor.
• To hang.
• noun A narrow strip of leather or other flexible material, generally used for some mechanical purpose, as to surround and hold together, or to retain in place. ,
• noun A long and narrow piece of thin iron or other metal used to hold different parts together, as of a frame or the sides of a box; a leaf of a hinge; in carpentry, an iron plate for connecting two or more timbers, to which it is bolted or screwed.
• noun In botany, the ligule in florets of Compositæ (see ligule); also, in some grasses, the leaf exclusive of its sheath.
• noun A string.
• noun Credit; originally, credit for drink.
• noun In a vehicle: A plate on the upper side of the tongue and resting upon the doubletree, to aid in holding the wagou-hammer.
• noun A clip, such as that which holds a spring to the spring-bar or to the axle.
• noun The stirrupshaped piece of a clevis.
• noun A strap-oyster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To beat or chastise with a strap.
• transitive verb To fasten or bind with a strap.
• transitive verb To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop.
• noun A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
• noun Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
• noun A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
• noun A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
• noun (Carp. & Mach.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
• noun (Naut.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
• noun The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
• noun The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
• noun A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
• noun a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length.
• noun (Mach.) a journal box, or pair of brasses, secured to the end of a connecting rod by a strap. See Illust. of Gib and key, under Gib.
• noun a hinge with long flaps by which it is fastened, as to a door or wall.
• noun (Railroads) a flat rail formerly used.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
• noun A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
• noun Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
• noun A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
• noun A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
• noun botany The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
• noun botany The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.