Strip

·noun A trough for washing ore.

II. Strip ·vt To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

III. Strip ·vt To divest of clothing; to Uncover.

IV. Strip ·vt To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

V. Strip ·vt To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

VI. Strip ·vt To Dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, ·etc.

VII. Strip ·noun A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

VIII. Strip ·noun The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

IX. Strip ·vt To Pass; to get clear of; to Outstrip.

X. Strip ·vt To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

XI. Strip ·vi To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. ·see Strip, ·vt, 8.

XII. Strip ·vi To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to Undress.

XIII. Strip ·vt To remove fiber, flock, or lint from;

— said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

XIV. Strip ·vt To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

XV. Strip ·vt 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.

XVI. Strip ·vt 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.

XVII. Strip ·vt 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.