Middle English Dictionary Entry
strop(pe n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | strop(pe n.(1) Pl. strops, stroppes, strope & (error) stopes. |
| Etymology | OE strop thong for an oar; also cp. L struppus, stroppus; and cp. MLG strop, MDu. strop, stroppe loop, noose & MLG strōpe loop on a horse's harness. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A loop or strap on a horse's harness; ?also, some kind of strap for a cart; (b) naut. a loop of rope, hide, or metal used to connect blocks and yards with the ropes in a ship's rigging, a strop; (c) ?a narrow band of metal, a piece of strapping.
Associated quotations
a
- (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3198 : j par strope deaur.; ii paria de reynes..j chevesell cum reynes deaur.
- (1425) Paston (EETS)1.20 (11/12) : Apparatus carecte, videlicet, vna sella, vnum par des stroppys, duo paria dez trayses.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57201 : Item, for a stroppe and for a brydell, viij d.
b
- (1357) *Pipe Roll (PRO) 32 Edw.III m.34/2 [OD col.] : ij lollers, ij trusseropes cum iiijor poliues, i poleancre rope cum le stroppe.
- (1409) *Acc.Exch.K.R.44/11(3).m.3 [OD col.] : In xxij lb. et di. de cordis..expenditis in factura del stroppes infra bargiam.
- (1409-11) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 397 : ij petitz handropes, ij Strops..ij stroppes pro les Boyes.
- (1417) *For.Acc.(PRO) 8 Hen.V G/1 [OD col.] : j liffe rope, ij Bowlynes, j Stroppe.
- (1420) *For.Acc.(PRO) 3 Hen.VI F/2 [OD col.] : j corda pro stroppes.
- (1468) Acc.Howard in RC 57526 : Item, fore xliij shifes and iiij stopes [read: stropes], viij d.
- (1485) Doc.in Oppenheim Acc.& Invent.Navy Hen.VII36,37 : Poleis with Stroppes, iiij..poles with sheves of brasse and stroppes, ij.
- (1485) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 214 : Stroppes of Russewale, ij; Stroppes for the tyes otherwise cald Bees, ij.
c
- (1472-74) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31533 : Item, for ij stroppes of Iren for the Clocke, x d.