strap

a lively cobbler, that […] had scarce passed a day in his life without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.

Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third / 'Cause I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird

David Arquette was given the belt because he's a celebrity. Period. I wasn't that upset about it because even the on-air product treated it as laughable. It was a "fluke" that Arquette managed to grab the strap, and he held it for less than a week. But there was no point in it....that I do agree with.