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strap-oil

noun

  1. slang.
    a beating

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And he was as innocent, the Baron was, as a new boy sent to the harness shop after strap oil.

He loved his children, and if a boy could be saved by so simple a means as "strap-oil," he was not the man to shirk his duty.

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