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stripping


  3  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]: 
 
  Stripping  \Strip"ping\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  one  who  strips. 
 
  The  mutual  bows  and  courtesies  .  .  .  are  remants  of 
  the  original  prostrations  and  strippings  of  the 
  captive.  --H.  Spencer. 
 
  Never  were  cows  that  required  such  stripping.  --Mrs. 
  Gaskell. 
 
  2.  pl  The  last  milk  drawn  from  a  cow  at  a  milking. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stripping 
  n  :  the  removal  of  covering  [syn:  {denudation},  {uncovering},  {baring}, 
  {husking}] 




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