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To punish or torture by the strappado. Milton.

One who uses strap.

Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.] There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.

To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [Obs.] Chapman.

A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.

Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.

Furfuran. [Obs.]

Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

s which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.

One of the Tetrapneumona.

An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.

An insect having four wings.

Having four wings.

A noun that has four cases only. Andrews.

ent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] Sterne.

Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria.