strap

verb, beat with a strap (COD, 2); also get/give the strap; see also strap (the)

“That day, I said to myself then, ‘They’re never going to strap me here’.”

“I had heard stories about him, how he had strapped my mother too, so. He was a schoolteacher.”

get/give the strap

“She was the first one to give me the strap. She only taught a year up there too.”

“Well, I got the strap for laughing in class.”

“If you got out of line, you went down to the office, and you got the strap.”

“Got the strap one time. For being late.”

“I think he must have had the notes pre-written. ‘Cause, you know, when everybody’s together in the chapel, and then somebody acts up … hand you a note for you to get the strap.”

“But anyway, from then on ’til grade three, I knew every morning I was leaving home I was going to get the strap that day. One day in particular I got it three times.”