among surgeons, a sort of band used to stretch out limbs in the setting of broken or dis-jointed bones.

in a ship, the rope which is spliced about any block, and made with an eye to fasten it anywhere on occasion.

STRAPS, in the manege. The straps of a saddle are small leather straps, nailed to the bows of the saddle, with which we make the girths fast to the saddle.