Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Strapping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Strapping \Strap"ping\, a.
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.]
There are five and thirty strapping officers gone.
--Farquhar.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Strap \Strap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Strapping}.]
1. To beat or chastise with a strap.
2. To fasten or bind with a strap. --Cowper.
3. To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a
razor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
strapping
adj : muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall
burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a
strapping boy of eighteen"; (`buirdly' is a Scottish
term; "a buirdly lad of twelve") [syn: {beefy}, {burly},
{husky}, {buirdly}]
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