Strip

strip, v.t to pull off in strips or stripes: to tear off: to deprive of a covering: to skin, to peel, to husk: to make bare: to expose: to remove the overlying earth from a deposit: to deprive: to impoverish or make destitute: to plunder: to pre out the last milk at a milking: to pre out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation: to separate the leaves of tobacco from the stems.— v.i. to undre : to lose the thread, as a screw: to come off:— pr.p. strip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. stripped.— n. a long narrow piece of anything (cf. Stripe ).— ns. Strip′leaf , tobacco which has been stripped of the stalks before packing; Strip′per , one who, or that which, strips.— n.pl. Strip′pings , the last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.— Strip off , to pull or take off: to cast off. [A.S. strýpan ; Ger. streifen .]