Obs. exc. dial. [f. STRAPPLE sb.]
† 1. trans. To furnish with ‘strapples’ or coverings for the legs. Obs.
1607. Chapman, Bussy d’Ambois, III. ii. 14. Slaue flatterie (like a Rippiers legs rowl’d vp In bootes of haie-ropes) with Kings soothed guts Swadled and strappl’d, now lives only free.
2. To bind or make fast with bands. Also fig.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 438. His ruine startl’d th’ other steeds: the geres crackt, and the raines Strappl’d his fellowes. Ibid. (c. 1624), Hymn to Hermes, 720. Hermes … did forthwith cut and bow Strong Osiers in soft folds, and strappl’d strait One of his hugest Oxen.
1659. C. Noble, Mod. Answ. to Immod. Queries, 8. ’Tis also a stumbling stone, and a gin, and a snare, to entangle and strapple some feeble judgements.
1888. Sheffield Gloss., Strapple, to bind, make fast with a cord, strap, &c.
