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Strip   /strɪp/   Listen
noun
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.


verb
Strip  v. t.  (past & past part. stripped; pres. part. 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.
(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." "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.
(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  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.





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... furniture in the room was as old-fashioned and as well-preserved as it could be. The chintz curtains were Indian calico of the last century—the colours almost washed out, but the stuff itself exquisitely clean. There was a little strip of bedside carpeting, but the wooden flooring, thus liberally displayed, was of finely-grained oak, so firmly joined, plank to plank, that no grain of dust could make its way into the interstices. There were ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... of the country is very remarkable. A strip of land, rarely exceeding twenty leagues in width, runs along the coast, and is hemmed in through its whole extent by a colossal range of mountains, which, advancing from the Straits of Magellan, reaches its highest elevation-indeed, ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott
... worn out, and in so much suffering. She bade at once that some water should be heated, and some of the broth of the dinner set on the fire; then with the shears at her girdle, and her soft, light fingers, she removed the torn strip of cloth that had been wound round the arm, and cut away the sleeve, showing the arm not broken, but gashed at the shoulder, and thence the whole length grazed and wounded by the descent of the sword down to the wrist. So tender was her touch, that he scarcely winced ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge
... were empty of all life. It is as if a wave of distrust had passed simultaneously over all the creatures of the wild. At other times the lightest occasion suffices to call life out of the stillness. Crimmins had not sounded more than twice his deceptive call, when the bushes behind the strip of beech crackled sharply. But it was not the great bull that stepped forth into the moonlight. It was a cow moose. She came out with no effort at concealment, and walked up and down the beach, angrily looking for her ...
— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
... enough left to make West Virginia. Ancient Egypt was only about one-fourth as large as modern Egypt. The greater portion of the land always has been and is today a desert. The thirteen million people practically live on the narrow valley of the Nile in a strip of territory from five to fifteen miles wide except down ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols


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