strappers

Noun

strapper (plural strappers)

1. A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
2. A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.
3. One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.
   • I was, however, but a very brief period employed as a strapper, as from the care and pains which I took in cleaning and watering the horses they soon mended in their jaded, worn-out appearance, for they were regularly fed, because I was regularly sober, a state, I have been informed, in which my...1835, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science
4. (archaic) A cow which yields a small amount of milk.
   • “Nabla, Nabla,” says he, “them was the true words of Father Luke's when he said them would lend him a strapper would be repaid twofold. Here comes our own strapper back to us in company with a brave lump of a bullockeen. Faith,” says he, “Father Luke, you're the man for my money, and if ever ye...1905, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature

   Synonyms:

   duffer

5. A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.