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STRIP, G., to strip, to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. L.

1. To pull or tear off, as a covering as, to strip the skin from a beast to strip the bark from a tree to strip the clothes from a mans back.

2. To deprive of a covering to skin to peel as, to strip a beast of his skin to strip a tree of its bark to strip a man of his clothes.

3. To deprive to bereave to make destitute as, to strip a man of his possessions.

4. To divest as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare.

5. To rob to plunder as, robbers strip a house.

6. To bereave to deprive to impoverish as a man stripped of his fortune.

7. To deprive to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.

8. To pull off husks to husk as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.

9. To press out the last milk at a milking.

10. To unrig as, to strip a ship.

11. To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.

To strip off,

1. To pull or take off as, to strip off a covering to strip off a mask or disguise.

2. To cast off. Not in use.

3. To separate from something connected. Not in use.

We may observe the primary sense of this word is to peel or skin, hence to pull off in a long narrow piece hence stripe.

STRIP, n. G., a stripe, a streak.

1. A narrow piece, comparatively long as a strip of cloth.

2. Waste, in a legal sense destruction of fences, buildings, timber, &c.