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.
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.
Strip (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Stripping.]
[OE. stripen,
strepen, AS. str&?;pan in bestr&?;pan 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).
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