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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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