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STRIPS
Noun
strips
plural of strip
Verb
strips
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strip
Anagrams
• spirts, sprits, stirps
Source: Wiktionary
STRIP
Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] Etym: [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str in bestr 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.)
Definition: To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
4. (Agric.)
Definition: 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)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
Strip, n.
1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A trough for washing ore.
3. (Gunnery)
Definition: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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