The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to STRAP

 

BLACK STRAP		Bene Carlo wine; also port. A task of labour imposed on soldiers at Gibraltar, as a punishment for small offences.
CADDEE		A helper. An under-strapper.
GALLOPER		A blood horse. A hunter. The toby gill clapped his bleeders to his galloper and tipped the straps the double. The highwayman spurred his horse and got away from the officers.
LEATHER		To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle sick. To leather also meant to beat, perhaps originally with a strap: I'll leather you to your heart's content. Leather-headed; stupid. Leathern conveniency; term used by quakers for a stage-coach.
STRAP		To work. The kiddy would not strap, so he went on the scamp: the lad would not work, and therefore robbed on the highway.
STRAPPER		A large man or woman.
STRAPPING		Lying with a woman.
TWO-HANDED		Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
UNDERSTRAPPER		An inferior in any office, or department.