Strip (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. strpan in bestrpan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]
1.
To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
And strippen her out of her rude array.
Chaucer.
They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
Gen. xxxvii. 23.
Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
Macaulay.
2.
To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Before the folk herself strippeth she.
Chaucer.
Strip your sword stark naked.
Shak.
3. Naut.
To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
4. Agric.
To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
5.
To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
6.
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
[Obs.]
When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
Chapman.
Before he reached it he was out of breath,
And then the other stripped him.
Beau. & Fl.
7.
To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.
Gilpin.
8. Mach. (a)
To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
(b)
To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
9.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
10. Carding
To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
11.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
<-- strip mine. A mine in which the unwanted layers (called the overburdewn) above the desirable ore is stripped, i.e. removed by excavation, leaving a pit in which the ore is exposed; in contrast with mines in which the ore is accessed and removed through a shaft or tunnel, without removing the layers of earth above it. -->
<-- striptease, an act in which a performer (usu. female) removes her clothing piece by piece; -- often performed to musical accompaniment. It was popular in burlesque theaters. -->
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Strip (?), v. i.
1.
To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
2. Mach.
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
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Strip, n.
1.
A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
2. Mining
A trough for washing ore.
3. Gunnery
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Farrow.
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