Word: strip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”). Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪp/, [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪp], [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪp] 1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. Labels: transitive Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair. 2. To take off clothing. Labels: intransitive, usually Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river. Example: The hy auter he strypte naked; There on he stode, and craked; He shoke downe all the clothys, And sware horryble othes Before the face of God, […] 3. To perform a striptease. Labels: intransitive Example: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping. 4. To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. Labels: transitive Example: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test. Example: They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing. 5. To remove cargo from (a container). Labels: transitive 6. To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. Labels: transitive Example: Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread. Example: The screw is stripped. 7. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. Labels: intransitive 8. To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling. Labels: transitive Example: Well, strange to say, it is the opinion of "Stonehenge," and other good judges, that no rifle so readily strips its ball, which consequently passes through the barrel without receiving the rotatory motion, and performs the most eccentric flights. 9. To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel. Labels: intransitive Example: The number of grooves being only three, admits of these being shallow, so that the ball does not strip readily, while a further most ingenious adaptation is that the grooves be trice as deep (but, let the reader remember that such measurements are made by five-thousanths of an inch) at the breech as at the mizzle, so that the ball always becoming more compressed as it leaves the barrel. 10. To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color. Labels: transitive 11. To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.) Labels: transitive 12. To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing). Labels: transitive 13. To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk. Labels: transitive 14. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation. 15. To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule. Labels: transitive 16. To pare off the surface of (land) in strips. Labels: transitive 17. To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit). Labels: transitive 18. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory Example: Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him. 19. To remove the insulation from a wire/cable. 20. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 21. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 22. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands". 23. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).