strip
STRIP, v.t. G., to strip, to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. L.
1. To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a mans back.
2. To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.
3. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.
4. To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare.
5. To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.
6. To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.
7. To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.
8. To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.
9. To press out the last milk at a milking.
10. To unrig; as, to strip a ship.
11. To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
To strip off,
1. To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.
2. To cast off. Not in use.
3. To separate from something connected. Not in use.
We may observe the primary sense of this word is to peel or skin, hence to pull off in a long narrow piece; hence stripe.
STRIP, n. G., a stripe, a streak.
1. A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.
2. Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, &c.
stripped
STRIPPED, pp. Pulled or torn off; peeled; skinned; deprived; divested; made naked; impoverished; husked, as maiz.
stripping
STRIPPING, ppr. Pulling off; peeling; skinning; flaying; depriving; divesting; husking.
strippings
STRIPPINGS, n. The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.