·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.
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.