Noun

(en noun)

A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}

A strip of thick leather used in flogging.

* (rfdate) Addison:

A lively cobbler that had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap .

Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.

A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.

A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.

# (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.

# (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

(botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.

(botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.

(slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.

Noun

(en noun)

A long, straight region of a single colour.

(in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

(informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

persons of the same political stripe

A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 3

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.

* Thomson

Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes .

* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2

Thou most lying slave, / Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

(weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.