stringybark (string i bark)

1. One of a cla of Austral asian gum-trees ( Eucalyptus ) distinguished by a tenacious fibrous bark. The common stringy-bark is E. obliqua, abounding in Tasmania squeeze the ripe roe or milt out of (fishes). After the fishes are stripped the spawn of opposite sexes is mixed together; and after this artificial fecundation the eggs are hatched by artificial methods. 9. In agri., to pare off the surface of in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface. Imp. Dict.-10. To separate; put away: with from. His. unkindne , That stripp'd her from his benediction. Shak ., Lear, iv. 3. 45. 11. In tobacco- manuf., to separate (the wings of the tobacco-leaf) from the stems. E. H. Knight.-12. In carding, to clean (the teeth of the various cylinders and top flats) from short stripe fibers. E. H. Knight.-13. In file - making, to cro -file and draw-file (a file-blank) in order to bring it to accurate form and to clean the surface preliminary to grinding and cutting.14. In mining, to remove the overlying soil or detrital material from (any bed or mineral deposit which it is desired to open and work).15. In gun - making, to turn (the exterior of a gun-barrel) in a lathe in such manner that its longitudinal axis shall coincide with the axis of the bore.-16t. To run past or beyond; outrun; outstrip. See outstrip. Alate we ran the deer, and through the lawnds Stripp'd with our nags the lofty frolic bucks. Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. =Syn. 2. To denude, lay bare. II. in trans. 1. To take off the covering or clothes; uncover; undre .-2. To lose the thread, as a screw, or have the screw stripped off, as a screw-bolt.-3. To i ue from a rifled gun without a uming the spiral turn: said of a projectile. Farrow .-4. To come off, as an outer covering (as bark); separate from an underlying surface.-5. To be stripped of milt or spawn. Compare I., 8. strip2 (strip), n. [Another form of stripe : see stripe . Strip is to stripe as bit to bite , smit to smite. It is commonly referred to strip1 , v.] 1. A narrow piece, comparatively long: as, a strip of cloth; a strip of territory.-2. An ornamental appendage to women's dre , formerly worn: it is spoken of as worn on the neck and breast. When a plum'd fan may shade thy chalked face, And lawny strips thy naked bosom grace. Bp. Hall, Satires, IV. iv. 51. A stomacher upon her breast so bare, For strips and gorget were not then the weare. Dr. Smith , Penelope and Uly es, 1. 1658. 3. A stripling; a slip. George Eliot, Middle march, xlvi.-4. In joinery, a narrow piece of board nailed over a crack or joint between planks.-5. In mining, one of a series of troughs forming a labyrinth, or some similar arrangement, through which the ore flows as it comes from the stamps, and in which the particles are deposited in the order of their equivalence. strip3 (strip), n. [Sc. also strype, streape, dim. strypie; perhaps another use of strip2. Cf. strip pet. ] 1. A rill. [Scotch.] -2. Destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.; waste. [U. S.] strip-armor (strip'ärmor), n. Armor, especially for the legs, used in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and showing broad raised strips alternating with sunken bands.