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strap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1710, OED Evaluation: N/A

as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... how was the teaching done at that time? Speaker: Well if they didn't behave themselves they got the strap and I remember one time my baby brother ... they brought him up to Mr. Symons' room with some other little boys and he got the strap. Well I thought to myself he's going to strap my baby brother and so, he wasn't, he told me after he wasn't going to but he was scaring these little kids you see and he made them put their hands out ...
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: … Um, what sort of disciplinary measures were there in the schools, at that time? Speaker: Well an elementary school of-course you were ah allowed ah to use the strap, as ah- as any kind, firm and judicious parent would use it. In secondary school, I have known the principal to use the strap.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
If you wouldn't get the strap you didn't like it because when you went home they'd ask you, how much did you get today, how many straps.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
The only thing we didn't like was the schoolmarm had a cane and it came across you knuckles. I didn't like that, I preferred the strap.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
They quit strapping them in Scotland just a few years ago and they had to bring it back again. The kids just don't, won't, obey a thing, you can't strap them and they had to bring it back you-know. They liked the strap there you-know but they only hit you once, over here they hit them a lot of times, don't they. Over there one's all you wanted, a three finger strap and when they used to just give us one.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
But there was one boy I- I- I gave the strap to oftener than I did another over at Queen-Mary. He was a young villain. And ah- but ah outside of that I- I didn't ah- the strap was the last thing as far as I was concerned but ah I did give it at times when I thought they should have it.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
... if anyone dis-behaved they uh, or used uh wrong language, she would take them back to the sink and she would uh, ask them to wash their mouth out with a little soap. ... And um, I can't remember now what- oh, she did use the strap. ... No, not too often. As I say, she, she uh, did get the respect that she usually wanted.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Do they still use um- like do they still use the whip and-things-like-that? Speaker: Well the strap. Interviewer: The strap I meant, yeah, not the whip. Do they still use it at your school? ... Do you think that's a good ide-- Speaker: Well only if you're really bad. Like if you're in a bunch of fights or-something-like-that.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
... she said, "Mike, stand up!" She said, "What are you doing?' He said, "I am rolling boulders, up the aisle." She said, "You stay after four." Now whether she gave him the strap, whether she just lectured him sternly, or what happened, but Mike never come back to school.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What was your school-life like, in- growing up in Toronto, was- were the teachers very strict, or? Speaker: Yeah back then, it was, ah yeah they got the strap and Interviewer: really the strap, that something Speaker: oh yeah, you got- you got the strap, corporal punishment was a normal, every day thing
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: No. And I- this is another thing I can remember one of the, it was one of the boys was acting up and the teacher sent me to the principal's office to get the strap, 'cause he was going to be strapped and I thought, "I 'm not going to get that strap." And so I went and I waited around and waited around outside the office and just sort-of walked back and forth and came back and said, "The principal wasn 't there, I couldn 't get the strap." Interviewer: And what did the teacher say? Speaker: She said, "Well, we 'll get it later." So I don 't know if I ever got it later, but I was bound I wasn 't going to get him that strap. So you could fool the teachers then. But having two brothers, I thought, "Well gee-whiz, they 'd kill me if I ever got the strap for them!" No, I didn 't get the strap for him.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Well that doesn 't work 'cause they don 't- they don 't listen, they don 't care. Like I 'm not saying they should bring back the strap and all-of-that and mean I- ... Well some of them- some of them deserve something you-know ...
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What would happen if you did something bad? Speaker: Um, well it was still in the time of- of, ah, school-strapping but that didn 't happen, very, very rarely.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Oh yeah we got the strap or- I never got the strap though I did get my hand put behind my back because I was a left hander and they changed me to right, and that 's why I didn 't like school.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
And ah, I personally, ah- I know a lot of people don 't agree with me, that I feel that they should bring the strap back into the school. ... Because the kids 'd think twice before they 'd do things.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
My grandmother 's a principal ah school teacher in Pickering and I remember she used to give the strap. Oh yeah.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
Interviewer: W-- you would have to get sent to the principal first? Speaker Yup. You 'd probably get a warning then if you got sent back the second time was when you got the strap.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Did you have- what- in school, schools were different then. Had the strap and things like that. Speaker: Oh yeah, got- yeah there was the strap. There was ah- also played um, marching tunes on a- on a victrola in the hallway when you march in from- into class in the morning in from recess, in at noon.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
Interviewer: Was there punishment if you stepped out of line, kind-of-thing? Speaker: No. Nobody stepped out of line. Interviewer: No, they knew better. Speaker: Um, yeah. I did get the strap twice. ... Once unjustifiably. Only from Mr-H too. Oh no, there 's a man- a vice-principal named Mr-B. He administered the strap. Forgotten that. Interviewer: Do you remember what you did? ... Speaker: Talking. ... It was the guys behind me ...
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Did you remember incidents of people getting punished in school with you-know the strap or something? Speaker: (laughs) I was never got the strap. Oh yes there was BT, he was a holy-terror. He was bad mouth, he was a holy-terror. Enough about him. Interviewer: Do you remember something he did that he got the strap for? Speaker: No, he was just a bad mouth, I was afraid of him.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.