a. Tall; strong; lusty; large;
There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar. [ 1913 Webster ]
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 ]
a. Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]