as in sharpens
to make sharp or sharper
at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades
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“Strops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strops. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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