Strip /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping

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.

   They stripped Joseph out of his coat.

   Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.

2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.

   Before the folk herself strippeth she.

   Strip your sword stark naked.

3. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. (Naut.)
4. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. (Agric.)
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.

   Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.

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.

8. To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (Mach.)
9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
10. To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. (Carding)
11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
2. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8. (Mach.)

1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
2. A trough for washing ore. (Mining)
3. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. (Gunnery)