Category:Strip

Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] Etym: [oe. stripen, strepen, as. str in bestr 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.)

Defn: to dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

4. (agric.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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 Strip, v. i.

1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to Undress.

2. (mach.)

Defn: to fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or Nut. See strip, v. t., 8.

Strip Strip, n.

1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a Strip of land.

2. (mining)

Defn: a trough for washing ore.

3. (gunnery)

Defn: the issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring The spiral motion. Farrow.