strop
noun
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
has stropped
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present perfectof strop (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Next the Bible is Q's Anthology of English Verse, its brave leather cover rather impaired by the fact that for two mornings Boggley, having mislaid his strop, has stropped his razor on it.
From Olivia in India by O. Douglas
