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Definition of Stropped
1. strop [v] - See also: strop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stropped
Literary usage of Stropped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: Transmitted to the by United States Dept. of State (1870)
"Peter Hanson, seaman, says: "While we lay at anchor, blocks were stropped, two
sheaf blocks. I had orders from the chief mate to get the gun-tackle blocks ..."
2. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1883)
"Rope stropped. „ Patent and other Sheaves and Bushes. „ Iron Blocks and Bindings.
„ Steering Wheels. „ Signal-Gun Carriages. „ Capstan Bars, Handspikes and ..."
3. The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with (1845)
"The 40-inch blocks were in the first place double stropped with 9-inch rope cable
laid, with a large eye to take turns of lashing, and had also a preventer ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"I should think I did'," answered Rasp, and be stropped his razor on his hand very
impatiently. "That's the way they serve the constitution. ..."
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