Strapping is bands put round a load to hold it together. Steel strapping, cut the strapping, apply the strapping.
Steel is used for heavy loads and plastic for lighter ones, and it is tensioned and sealed rather than tied. Cutting steel strapping under tension is genuinely dangerous. As an adjective, strapping describes somebody big and strong.
1nounstrappingBands put round a load to hold it together.
“The plastic strapping around the pallet snapped, and boxes slid onto the floor.”
strapping is a fastening.
Proto-Indo-European
*strebʰ-
Ancient Greek
στρόφος — rope
Latin
stroppus
Old French
estrope — strap, loop on a harness
Old English
strop
Middle English
strope
English
strap
English, today
strapping
Built from
strap comes from a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (“rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (“to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA