Strip

Definition of Strip

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Stripped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] 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. 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.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread 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).
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.
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.

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