Meaning

noun a relatively long narrow piece of something

noun artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

noun an airfield without normal airport facilities

originFrom Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

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