Read full poem →broken. There was the bathtub and the toilet and the tiles. He reached and
took down the razor strop which hung from a hook. It was going to be the
first of many such beatings, which would recur more and more often. Al-
Dictionary Entry
A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop.
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Common Phrases
. stropstrop razorstrop leatherstrop autostrop jacquesstrop wire
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Poetry examples for “strop”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And it wald play and hop,
About the heid ane stre strop;
And it wald sing and it wald dance,