n.;
v. t. To punish or torture by the strappado. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Tall; strong; lusty; large;
There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. trappéen. See Trap a kind of rock. ] (Min.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From Trap to insnare. ]
n. pl. [ From Trap to dress with ornaments. ]
Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Caparisons and steeds,
Bases and tinsel trappings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. trappiste. ] (R. C. Ch.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by
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n. [ From Trap a kind of rock. ] (Min.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. [ See Trap to dress. ] Trappings for a horse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Min.) Same as Trappous. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. [ 1913 Webster ]
This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]