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strap

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1735, OED Evaluation: N/A

To beat with a strap or leather thong.

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 ...
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
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.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
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.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... did people get in some trouble there too? Speaker: Oh yeah, that was the- used to be uh, uh- they used to be able to strap you on the hand, so it was no- no problem, and if you pulled your hand away, you got two for one. (laughing)
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
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.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: And when you were in school they used punishment as well. Speaker: I got strapped four times when I was in school.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
I had to use it once 'cause the principal (laughs) forced me to use it. And I only give one little slap in each hand and not even th-- not much force 'cause I did- I said I did- "I don't want to strap him." "You- that's your responsibility. You got to do it. You brought the kid to the office." But I only had to use it once and I- I didn't like it.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
But I'll never forget the humiliation of- and the frustration of knowing that it didn't matter how long I went through that garbage, I was never going to find that note so that was just some of the little punishments that we did. But at least she never strapped anybody.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
So, no I ah- strapping died out considerably ah, i-- was a real way of disciplining way back when I first started, but ah it- it die, it ah- you-know? Actually the people that can make the big change in the kids is the parents if they want to, but unfortunate the parents have done nothing and the kid has gone to school.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
Interviewer: We heard stories about ah the strap you'd keep in your back pocket. Speaker: No, I sometimes carried that around. ... It was quick to do something when somebody hit somebody going in the door, it's quicker to get them one crack with the strap when they open their palm than to go into (inc) and it- the boys thought this was great, you-see? Because ah you got strapped and you didn't- nothing. Well, it wasn't anything either, you weren't out to kill them or-anything.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
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... as far as I know we liked that teacher, Miss-Nevin- Amelia-Nevin. We liked her, she was good, but she ah, gave us a strapping every day, Ross-McTavish and I. Just to- I-think it was to cow the young lads and the rest.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So, you never got into trouble in school, then? Speaker: Not really, I never was in trouble, no. They never strapped me or-anything-like-that.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
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We didn't do pranks then, ah, because in public school, um, everybody except my older sister who was just there one year then she was gone into high school, but the rest of us including everybody in the school got strappings for something. ... And, ah, so nobody even looked sideways.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
Let's see, I got the strap for jumping over the school fence and going and retrieving a one of the a great big bee's nest, I thought the- I thought the teacher would really like to have that. (laughs) So it wasn't really for getting the- that I got strapped for getting the bee's ne-- o-- o-- or because of the bee's nest, I was strapped because I jumped over the fence. ... Ah, besides getting the strap (laughs) for a bee's nest.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
Well there was, you-know, speaking of the strap, I-mean you've heard some stories too where ah ah there- there was the bold kids, and they would get strapped for whatever they they were mischiefing, right? For me, I ended up getting the strap because I was bold. (laughs)
To beat with a strap or leather thong.
ExampleMeaning
A lot of people- a lot of old teachers are getting sued and-what-not 'cause abuse- she'd strap for anything. She just loved the strap. And I remember this one day we couldn't answer a math question, the whole c-- nobody in the class could answer it. She was so angry, she was so mad, she made everybody stand up and she strapped everybody, the whole thirty-five students.
To beat with a strap or leather thong.