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Webster 1913 Edition
Strip
Strip
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stripped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stripping
.] [OE.
stripen
, strepen
, AS. str[GREEK]pan
in bestr[GREEK]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. Shakespeare
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 cow6.
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
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
,Verb.
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 , 8.
Strip
, Verb.
T.
Strip
,Noun.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Strip
STRIP
,Verb.
T.
1.
To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a mans back.2.
To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.3.
To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.4.
To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare.5.
To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.6.
To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.7.
To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.8.
To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.9.
To press out the last milk at a milking.10.
To unrig; as, to strip a ship.11.
To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.To strip off,
1.
To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.2.
To cast off. [Not in use.]3.
To separate from something connected. [Not in use.] [We may observe the primary sense of this word is to peel or skin, hence to pull off in a long narrow piece; hence stripe.]
STRIP
,Noun.
1.
A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.2.
Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, &c.