| Strip |
v. t. |
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. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To divest of clothing; to uncover. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
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. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
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. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
To remove fiber, flock, or lint from;
said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. |
| Strip |
v. t. |
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. |
To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. |
| Strip |
v. i. |
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8. |
| Strip |
n. |
A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. |
| Strip |
n. |
A trough for washing ore. |
| Strip |
n. |
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. |
| Strip-leaf |
n. |
Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. |
| Stripe |
n. |
A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe. |
| Stripe |
n. |
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. |
| Stripe |
n. |
A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment. |
| Stripe |
n. |
A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark. |
| Stripe |
n. |
A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like. |
| Stripe |
n. |
Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe. |
| Stripe |
n. |
The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer. |
| Stripe |
v. t. |
To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes. |
| Stripe |
v. t. |
To strike; to lash. |
| Striped |
imp. & p. p. |
of Stripe |
| Striped |
a. |
Having stripes of different colors; streaked. |
| Striping |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Stripe |
| Stripling |
n. |
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. |
| Stripped |
imp. & p. p. |
of Strip |
| Stripper |
n. |
A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping. |
| Stripper |
n. |
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. |
| Strippet |
n. |
A small stream. |
| Stripping |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Strip |
| Stripping |
n. |
The act of one who strips. |
| Stripping |
n. |
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. |
