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.
To divest of clothing; to
uncover.
To dismantle; as, to
strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
To pare off the surface of,
as land, in strips.
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.
To pass; to get clear of; to
outstrip.
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 tear
off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is
stripped.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated
article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fiber, flock,
or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly
clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks
of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from
(tobacco leaves).
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