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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strip \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). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strip \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strip \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: strip adj : (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface; "opencast mining"; "an opencut iron mine"; "a strip mine" [syn: {opencast}, {opencut}, {strip(a)}] n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something "he felt a flat strip of muscle" 2: a narrow flat piece of material [syn: {slip}] 3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: {airstrip}, {flight strip}, {landing strip}] 4: a sequence of drawings in a newspaper telling a story [syn: {comic strip}, {cartoon strip}] 5: thin piece of wood or metal 6: a form of entertainment in which a dancer undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" [syn: {striptease}] v 1: take away all material possessions from someone [syn: {dispossess}, {deprive}, {divest}] 2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!" [syn: {undress}, {discase}, {uncase}, {unclothe}, {strip down}, {disrobe}] [ant: {dress}, {dress}] 3: remove the surface from "strip wood" 4: remove substances form by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: {leach}] 5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: {denude}, {bare}, {denudate}] 6: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {rifle}, {ransack}, {pillage}, {foray}] 7: remove all contents or possession from or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"; deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely" [syn: {clean}] 8: strip the cured leaves from "strip tobacco" 9: remove the thread (of screws) 10: remove a constituent from a liquid; in chemistry 11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: {dismantle}] 12: draw the last milk (of cows)
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