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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
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)
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What happened if you did something bad. Speaker: Got the strap. Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: What did you do? Speaker: Pulled my hand away?
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
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.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Anyway, I got the- y-- at that time, they had- all the nuns had straps on their hand. And there was one nun that they took the strap away from. But I got slapped for something. At- it- I- but- In the morning, I had three- probably got three slaps on each hand, or which one- very gentle slaps. Anyway I went home and told my mother. Well, that didn't- that didn't- go very well! 'Cause I got punished at home!
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Yeah. So why'd you like that one teacher so much? Speaker: She was kind, gentle, ah just somebody you- you had to look up, she was so nice. Her manner, the way she did things, the way she talked, the way she- she could be discip-- disciplinary but she did it in such a way that, you-know, rather than shouting and screaming and whacking you with a- oh we got the strap too, when I was going to school.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: For what? What'd you do? Speaker: ... maybe fighting in the yard or-something-like-that. But boy, when you got that- have you ever seen one? ... It's- it's a- a belt about two inches wide and maybe about two feet long and when they wind up, you put your hand out, and they wind up and its full steam ahead, bang! on you your hand. That hurts. And of course you couldn't cry, you wouldn't dare, eh? Because, you-know, that was man thing to do, no crying. But it hurt like hell.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ah, the- and then discipline was strict in those days too. ... corporal punishment was still in and so you got the strap for being bad. Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: I did. (laughs)... But it- but it was a badge of courage actually because, ah, if you- if you got it you were one of the- in with one of the guys and you-know a part of the group and-whatever so- I don't recall what it was, maybe throwing erasers around or something. ... it was just one of those little kid's pranks that- that you got, ah, the strap for.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: I got the strap pretty every day. Interviewer: Oh yeah, what did you do? Speaker: Well, somewhat of the teachers, if you got- if you didn't have- got three words wrong in spelling or-something, you got the strap. ... Oh yeah, that- it worked. They were supposed to be nuns, but they were- they were nones all right. They didn't have no brains.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
... the supply-teachers, the- you-know, the kids never listened at all, and they just went r-- unruly, and couldn't manage it at all, but usually the teachers tha-- that we had, they were more- very strict, and of course, they had the strap ... some kids would go down to the principal and they'd come back, and they were so proud like, you-know, they were tough guys, and they'd bring their hands back, and they would be all red, because of being strapped on the hands.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.