Usually means: Sharpening tools for blades, leather.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (strop)

noun:  A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
noun:  (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
verb:  To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
verb:  (obsolete) To strap.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
verb:  (computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
noun:  (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
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