4. (Shipbuilding) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a
vessel on the under side of the beams.
5. (Carp.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or
to support a floor or the like.
String"halt` (?), n. (Far.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder
leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the
muscles that raise the hock. [Written also springhalt.]
String"i*ness (?), n. Quality of being stringy.
String"less, a. Having no strings.
His tongue is now a stringless instrument.
Shak.
String"piece` (?), n. (Arch.) (a) A long piece of timber, forming a
margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.: (b) One of the
longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run
of stairs.
String"y (?), a. 1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous;
filamentous; as, a stringy root.
2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance;
ropy; viscid; gluely.
Stringy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several trees of the
genus Eucalyptus (as E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha,
piperita, pilularis, ∧ tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used
by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.
Strip (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Stripping.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str&?;pan in bestr&?;pan to
plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.] 1. 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.
And strippen her out of her rude array.
Chaucer.
They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
Gen. xxxvii. 23.
Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without
imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
Macaulay.