strip

1. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. To divest of clothing; to uncover. Source: opted

3. v. t. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. Source: opted

4. v. t. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. Source: opted

5. 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. Source: opted

6. v. t. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. Source: opted

7. 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. Source: opted

8. v. t. To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. Source: opted

9. v. t. To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. Source: opted

10. v. t. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. Source: opted

11. v. t. To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. Source: opted

12. v. t. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). Source: opted

13. v. i. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. Source: opted

14. v. i. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8. Source: opted

15. n. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. Source: opted

16. n. A trough for washing ore. Source: opted

17. n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Source: opted

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