stropping
verb
- 1
To strap.
- 2
(recorded since 1842; now most used) To hone (a razor) with a strop.
“One should strop the razor before each shave.”
verb
- 1
To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
noun
- 1
The process by which a razor is stropped.
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