When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
Chapman.
Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other
stripped him.
Beau. & Fl.
7. 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 strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the
skin.
Gilpin.
8. (Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the
thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut);
as, the bolt is stripped.
9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or
electrolytic action.
10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the
teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them
into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
<! p. 1427 !>
Strip (?), v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or
covering; to undress.
2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw,
or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of
cloth; a strip of land.