strapper

Meaning

  1. A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
  2. A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.
  3. One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.
  4. A cow which yields a small amount of milk.
  5. 1905, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature
  6. 1905, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature: “Nabla, Nabla,” says he, “them was the true words of Father Luke's when he said them would lend him a strapper would be repaid twofold. Here comes our own strapper back to us in company with a brave lump of a bullockeen. Faith,” says he, “Father Luke, you're the man for my money, and if ever ye want a strapper again, just tip me the word, and I'll go bail ye'll not want one long; and if ye want two, why, I'll steal one for ye.”
  7. A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.

Synonyms

big fellow

binding machine

strapping machine

bundling machine

Etymology

From strap + -er, principally strap + -er (agent noun suffix). The sense referring to a poorly producing milk cow (from strap + -er) came from a dialectal sense of the verb strap as a troponym of milk: not even the most skilful milking action could coax enough milk from the udder.

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