neckstrap, noun

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South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch nekstrop, see nekstrop.
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strop noun1 sense 1 a.
1863 W.C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 103From the beams hung kaffir ropes,..neckstraps, and all the apparatus for wagoning.
1907 J.P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld (Glossary) 472Nekstrop,..the neck-strap, or reim, which, attached to the yokeskeys, keeps the yoke in place.
1936 E.C. Llewellyn Influence of Low Dutch 168Skey,..one of a pair of wooden bars passing through each end of an ox-yoke, to which the neck-straps are fixed.
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