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▪ I. strip, n.1 Law. Now only U.S.|strɪp|
Forms: 6 stripe, stryppe, strepe, 7–strip.
[a. AF. estrepe, vbl. noun f. estreper estrepe v.]
= estrepement.
1516in 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1876) 596/2 Jone my wyffe schalle make no stryppe ner waste in fellyng of tymbyr. 15..Modus tenend. Cur. Baron (W. de W.) A 4, Yf ye knowe that ony tenaunt haue made ony strepe or waast vpon his bonde tenement. Strepe is to saye pullynge vp of trees or hedges, waste is to saye late houses fall downe for defaute of reperacyon. 1559Boke Presidentes 30 N...shall haue..necessarie firebote, hedge bote [etc.]...duryng the sayd term, without stripe or wast. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, Isa. vii. 20 In that day, the Lord shall by the hand of the Assyrians..make utter strip, & waste of Judah. 1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. iii. verse 17. lx. [lxi.] 539 'Tis too bad if the tenant pays not his easie rent, but to make strip and waste of the trees on his Land-lords ground, this is more intolerable. 1682tr. Charter of Cinque Ports 138 Strip or Estrepement is a Writ for taking Lands from him that strips and spoils them. 1701in Charters & Gen. Laws Massachusetts (1814) 361 No woman that shall be endowed of any lands..as aforesaid, shall commit or suffer any strip or waste thereupon, but [etc.]. 1891Century Dict., Strip, destruction of fences, timber, etc.; waste. (U.S.)
▪ II. strip, n.2|strɪp|
Also 6 strippe, stryppe, 7 stripp.
[a. or cogn. w. MLG. strippe strap, thong of a whip-lash, purse-string, etc., perh. f. Teut. root *strī̆p-: see stripe n.2
The MLG. strippe, however, may be for *strüppe cogn. with strop n.; if so, sense 3 may perh. be an adoption of an unrecorded continental use: cf. Du. strop collar, stock.]
1. a. A narrow piece (primarily of textile material, paper, or the like; hence gen.) of approximately uniform breadth.
pilaster strip (Arch.): see pilaster.
1459Invent. in Paston Lett. I. 478 Item, j pece of blak kersey with rosys... Item, ij. stripis of the same sute. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 10 Strippes of black Veluet, euery strip set with a scalop shell. 1697H. Wanley in Bodl. Q. Rec. (1915) Jan. 107 That a little strip of Parchment be pasted to each Tract, with its number written upon it. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Strip, a small piece of Cloth. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 74 The glare of an egg..spread upon strips of paper. 1811in Rep. Comm. Publ. Rec. Irel. (1815) 71 The Fees demandable by the Clerk of the Enrolments... For ingrossing every double strip of Enrolment, 0 1 7½. 1847G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke III. xiv. 284 The following is in Lord Hardwicke's handwriting, on a small strip of paper. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xviii, No carpet, except little strips by the bed. 1882Gaskell in Jrnl. Physiol. IV. 51 A strip of muscular tissue is cut from the apex of the ventricle. 1907J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 118 A strip of very fine muslin.
†b. collect. as a material.
1801Jane Austen Lett. (1884) I. 283 My mother has ordered a new bonnet, and so have I; both white strip, trimmed with white ribbon.
c. A long narrow tract of territory, of land, wood, etc.
1816Tuckey Narr. Exped. R. Zaire vi. (1818) 206 The banks [of the river here] have in some places low strips of soil and sand. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 27 The county of Nice and duchy of Genoa, which form a long narrow strip between the southern side of the mountains and the sea. 1842W. Aiton Dom. Econ. (1857) 284 The preceding minister..had planted a strip of firs..around the portion of the glebe on which the manse and offices were built. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton vi. 74 This road is bordered by a strip of common. 1880Ruskin On Old Road (1885) II. 3 A narrow strip of untilled field.
d. A narrow piece of board, metal plate, etc.
1831Brewster Optics xxviii. 240 The influence of compression and dilatation may be well exhibited by taking a strip of glass..and bending it by the force of the hands. 1860J. Hewitt Arms & Arm. II. 120 Defences in which longitudinal strips appear, are of this [the 14th] century. These strips are placed contiguously, on the arms and legs: they sometimes form a mere ridge on the surface of a smooth armour. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2430 Strip, a narrow piece of board nailed over a crack or joint between planks. 1907J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 41 Strips of wood about 2½ in. wide by 1 in. thick.
e. A narrow portion of a surface, bounded by parallel lines.
1882G. M. Minchin Unipl. Kinemat. 185 To find the resistance of this area, we may consider it as broken up into..an indefinitely great number of equipotential strips. 1892Cayley Math. Papers (1897) XIII. 233 The skew surface is thus composed of rigid strips or elements, each included between two consecutive lines.
f. A sequence of small drawings telling a comic or serial story in a newspaper, etc. Freq. as comic strip. Also transf. orig. U.S.
1920L. N. Flint Editorial x. 229 In the paper..the week-day issues contain a preponderance of syndicate features—‘comics’, ‘strips’..and continued stories. 1920C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 47 The comic strips in the papers. 1928Daily Sketch 7 Aug. 4/2, I keenly appreciate the qualities that make Pop the greatest comic strip in the world. No comic strip artist..has the same facile and generic lines the creator of Pop possesses. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 537 Such wear a frillick for my comic strip, Mons Meg's Monthly, comes out aich Fanagan's Weck. 1943D. Powell Time to be Born iv. 95 She had a curious impression of being in a Buck Rogers strip..and gazing into another planet. 1955Auden Shield of Achilles ii. 38 Mild-looking middle class boys Who read the comic strips. 1967Listener 21 Dec. 821/3 This feedback from strip to pop and back into strip again is very noticeable. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 7b/6 Why, you might wonder, would Universal and NBC risk an expensive space comic strip like ‘Buck Rogers’?
g. = air-strip s.v. air n.1 B. III. 7. Also fig. See also fighter strip s.v. fighter 4, landing-strip s.v. landing vbl. n. 8.
1936W. H. McCormick Mod. Bk. Aeroplanes xi. 106 The strip extends across the landing-ground. 1944Yank 14 Jan. 10 As a draftsman working for the Australian government, he helped plan both strips. 1958‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 9 This is the only strip in the vicinity? 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 64 Greek celature as a take-off strip for the medieval manuscript culture. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 756/2 Several flying strips are also in use by light aircraft [in Nigeria].
h. A street noted for its night-clubs, bars, gambling houses, etc. Freq. with def. article and capital initial (orig. with reference to Sunset Strip in Hollywood: see quot. 1974). slang (chiefly N. Amer.).
1939California (Federal Writers' Project, Calif.) 193 Further west on Sunset Boulevard..is a section popularly known as ‘the Strip’. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vii. 124 The wind sweeping down the Strip from the sea. 1957MacLean's Mag. 6 July 33/1 The many-tongued enclave known as the Strip is cut off..by a near-Gothic stone pile that straddles the Avenue [sc. Spadina Avenue in Toronto] just north of College Street. 1967W. Murray Sweet Ride vi. 89 The Place is located in the heart of the Strip. It..had once catered to a touristy clientele. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 23/1 Visit the main floor bar of the Brown Derby at Dundas and Yonge, the crossroads of the Yonge Street ‘strip’ which includes seven bars within a block-and-a-half. 1971Guardian 8 July 3/1 Bangkok has its own strip, the new Petchburi Road extension: miles of girlie bars, short time hotels, and soul food snack bars. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 109/2 Sunset Boulevard meanders 21 miles west from the state park..to the sea. A one-mile section of the boulevard becomes the ‘Sunset Strip’, or simply the ‘Strip’. 1976Publishers Weekly 21 June 62/2 Rush Street was a nightlife strip, virtually deserted during the day. 1978S. Brill Teamsters iv. 124 Just over to the right is the strip—a row of flickering neons wrapped around bold signs that advertise ‘go-go girls’ and ‘live dancers’.
i. to tear (someone) off a strip, to tear a strip off (someone) and varr.: to upbraid or reprimand (someone); to lose a strip, to have a strip torn off, to be reprimanded or receive a dressing-down. colloq. (orig. R.A.F. slang).
1940N. Monks Squadrons Up ii. 56 For any breaches of discipline..he would ‘tear a strip’ off the luckless pilots. 1940‘N. Shute’ Landfall i. 25 Dickens tore me off a strip just now. 1942T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 30, I didn't particularly like doing it, and I had the hell of a strip torn off about it afterwards. 1952E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture iv. 71 Nicholls used to tear tremendous strips off Trayhorn. 1957L. P. Hartley Hireling 42 If my wife saw me wearing one, she would tear me off a strip. a1963J. Lusby in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 225 It's all right... I've just lost a strip, too. 1967Listener 31 Aug. 264/1 Mr Kosygin..tore great strips off almost every major industry for inefficiency, or shoddy work, or both. 1979‘M. Hebden’ Death set to Music ix. 99 He'd clearly suspected it might have been Nosjean's [idea] and had been hoping to be able to tear a strip off him.
j. A track used for motor-racing. See also drag strip s.v. drag n. 1 f. U.S.
1941Sun (Baltimore) 30 Aug. 13/1 Dick Pending has the racing strip in good condition and unless more rain comes tomorrow, the track will not be too bad. 1946Ibid. 2 Oct. 16/5 The racing strip has been brought around slowly to peak form. 1977Custom Car Nov. 5/4 The drivers of these American cars are also quite happy with the racing. They enjoy chasing the slower cars down the strip.
k. = strip light (b), sense 7 a below.
1970R. Crawford Kiss Boss Goodbye ii. iii. 68 The basement was..warmed by wall-heaters and lit by softpearl strips. 1981I. McEwan Comfort of Strangers x. 133 The room was small, windowless and heavily perfumed. It was lit by a fluorescent strip.
l. Cricket. The narrow band of ground lying between the wickets.
1976J. Snow Cricket Rebel 30 None of England's fast bowlers had been particularly menacing during the first Test on a typically sluggish Edgbaston strip. 1977Sunday Times 9 Jan. 28/6 MCC's other team in Bengal found a better wicket for batting at Dacca than the mutilated strip at Calcutta.
†2. ? Some piece of armour. Obs. rare—1.
Cf. the mod. application in quot. 1860 in 1 d, and in strip-armour.
c1508Dunbar Poems xxvi. 37 Bostaris, braggaris, and barganeris..Al bodin in feir of weir, In iakkis, and stryppis and bonettis of steill.
†3. An ornamental article of attire worn, chiefly by women, about the neck and the upper part of the chest. Obs.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. iv. 31 When a plum'd Fanne may shade thy chalked face, And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace. Ibid. iv. vi. 44 Tyr'd with pin'd Ruffes, and Fans, and partlet-strips And Buskes, and Verdingales about their hips. 1642in Alice M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. (1903) I. 205 [A Maryland gentleman left by will, with other attire, in 1642,] Nine laced stripps, two plain stripps, nine quoiffes, one call, eight crosse-cloths [etc.]. 1658J. Smith Innov. Penelope & Ulysses in Wit Restored 155 A stomacher upon her breast so bare, For Strips and Gorgets was not then the weare.
4. Metallurgy.
a. An ingot prepared for rolling into plates.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 217/2 The ingots [of brass] for rolling, termed ‘strips’, are in the cold state passed successively between rolls..of large size which squeeze them out and extend them lengthwise. 1879C. Hibbs in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 413/1 The ingots or ‘strips’ [of German silver] are then rolled into plates.
b. A narrow flat bar of iron or steel; hence, iron or steel in ‘strips’ (more fully strip iron, strip steel).
Often with prefixed word denoting the purpose, as gas, nail, rail, tube strip.
1887Daily News 16 May 2/3 Bedstead strip varies from {pstlg}5 to {pstlg}7 per ton..and gas strip {pstlg}4 17s 6d to {pstlg}5. 1893Ibid. 5 June 2/4 Tube strip is {pstlg}5 10s to {pstlg}5 15s; the competition in thin strip and hoop iron..continues keen... Hoops and thin strips are being offered..at {pstlg}6. Local makers ask {pstlg}6 5s for steel strip. 1901Waterhouse Conduit Wiring 8 The Conduits are made from selected steel strip.
5. Mining. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2430 Strip (Mining), an inclined trough in which ores are separated by being disturbed while covered by a stream of water descending the strip.
6. colloq. The clothing worn by and distinguishing a football team.
If the original sense is ‘clothing to which a player strips down’, this sense should properly be placed under strip n.3
1974Evening News (Edinburgh) 8 Oct. 16/3 Postal United, the East of Scotland League club, had their strip stolen from a car in the Hailesland Park area. 1977Shoot 18 June 4/4 The national strip of Zambia is green jerseys, orange shorts, and black stockings. 1981‘G. Gaunt’ Incomer xiv. 87 The [football] team were..passing flagon bottles around. Frank & Bob were..in a corner, having changed into strip early, and managed to grab a bottle between them.
7. attrib., as (sense 1 c) strip-holder, strip-holding, strip-owner; (sense 1 f), strip advertisement, strip form, strip heroine; (sense 1 g) strip landing ground; (sense 4 a) strip-caster; strip-armour Hist., armour for the arms and legs, showing broad raised strips (see sense 1 d) alternating with sunken bands; strip architecture U.S., the types of building or other features characteristic of strip development; strip-built a. rare—1, that has been subjected to strip or ribbon development; strip cartoon, a sequence of cartoons (sense 2) telling a (comic) story; freq. attrib.; hence strip cartoonist; strip chart, stripchart, a long roll of (usu. graduated) paper on which the pen of an automatic recording device can trace changes of a measured quantity with time by moving the paper past the pen at a constant rate; usu. attrib., designating recorders using such rolls; strip-cropping, (a) U.S., a system of land cultivation in which crops of different types and habits of growth are sown alternatively in strips along the contours of a hill, etc., to prevent soil erosion (cf. contour cropping s.v. contour n. 4); (b) the practice of growing crops in strips (cf. strip farming below); strip-cultivation, (a) = strip farming below; (b) Archæol., the practice of using strip lynchets in farming; strip development U.S. = ribbon development s.v. ribbon n. 10 a; strip-farm v. trans. U.S., to cultivate (land) in strips along the contours of a hill, etc., to prevent soil erosion (cf. strip-cropping (a) above); strip farming Hist., a system of land cultivation in which the land was divided up into long narrow strips and allocated to different peasant-farmers; strip-grazing Agric., a system of farm management in which strips of land are alternately grazed and kept empty; rotational grazing; hence strip-graze v. trans., to graze (land or livestock) in this way; strip-grazed ppl. a.; strip light, (a) Theatr., any device to provide diffused stage lighting by mounting several lamps in a row, as on a batten, in a trough, etc.; (b) a lighting device, now usu. in the form of a tubular fluorescent lamp, for providing a continuous line of light; also as v. trans.; hence strip-lighted ppl. a.; strip-lighting vbl. n.; strip line, stripline Electr., a microstrip; strip-lit a. = strip-lighted ppl. adj. above; strip-loin U.S., a particular cut of the loin of beef; strip-lynchet Archæol., a horizontal terrace used for cultivation; a long, narrow lynchet (sense 2 b); strip map, a long narrow map, showing the course of a line of road, and the places adjacent; strip mill Metallurgy, a rolling mill specially designed for the production of metal strip; strip mine U.S., a mine worked by strip-mining; also as v. trans., to obtain or exploit by strip-mining; strip-mined ppl. a., strip-miner; strip mining vbl. n. U.S., a method of mining in which surface material is removed in successive parallel strips to expose the mineral, the spoil from each new strip being placed in the previously excavated one; strip packaging, a method of packaging small items, liquids, etc., in which individual sachets are formed (from plastic or metal foil), filled and heat-sealed in a single process; strip park orig. U.S., a long, narrow park developed alongside a road, canal, etc. (cf. strip development above); strip printer, a photocomposing device which prints characters on a strip of paper or film; also, any device which prints on a narrow roll of paper; strip steak U.S. (see quot. 1962) (cf. strip-loin); strip system = strip farming above; strip ticket, a ticket for a journey by a public conveyance, printed with a number of similar tickets on a strip of paper; strip-work, (a) Arch. = strap-work (strap n. 18); (b) = strip-armour; strip-wound a., wound with strips, esp. of metal.
1938*Strip advertisement [see before A. 5 c].
1976New Yorker 15 Mar. 27/3 ‘*Strip’ architecture—the endless miles of trailer parks, gas stations, used-car lots, Taco Bells, etc.,..that fan out from every American metropolis—has its own validity.
1860J. Hewitt Arms & Arm. II. 121 The manner of forming this *strip-armour is very exactly described.
1936C. Day Lewis Noah & Waters 15 *Strip-built roads that stray Out like suckers to drain the country.
1936Discovery Dec. 384/1 Shop⁓keeper's bill of the early 18th century. Note the smokers conversing about their tobacco, quite in the modern ‘*strip-cartoon’ style. 1950Times 2 Mar. 6/5 Separate or detachable sections or supplements comprised wholly or mainly of strip cartoons. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 60 The coverlet tells the story of Tristan, in a series of scenes showing different incidents, in the manner of a strip cartoon. 1974Listener 24 Jan. 118/1 Under the strip-cartoon image lies a message that is often puritanical.
1953New Internat. Yearbk. 1952 47/1 J. C. Bancks, Australia's most popular *strip-cartoonist, was creator of Ginger Meggs.
1879C. Hibbs in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 413/1 The ‘*strip-caster’ as he is termed. 1884B'ham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 Stripcaster.—Wanted, Steady Man, used to casting Brass for rolling.
1950Instruments XXIII. 260/3 (Advt.), New ‘Pneumatic Capacilog’ air-operated *strip-chart recorder is completely self-contained. 1966N.Y. Times 3 Feb. 33 The computer recorded wave variations that often are undetectable to the eye of a physician using the traditional strip chart. 1978Nature 12 Oct. 520/2 The outputs are recorded on stripchart recorders, allowing a maximum resolution of 100 ms.
1936Sun (Baltimore) 18 Aug. 3/5 This would be effected through..a blending of ‘soil depleting’ crops with grasses by a system of ‘*strip-cropping’—a strip of crops and a strip of grass. 1949Martin & Leonard Princ. Field Crop Production v. 125 Strip cropping, now widely advocated, has been practiced for generations in sections of Pennsylvania. 1976S. Wales Echo 26 Nov. 8/6 If you have plenty of cloches you could accomplish what is called strip cropping. This means that sowings are arranged in alternate strips so that cloches can be moved sideways from one strip to the next and back as required.
1932Kendrick & Hawkes Archaeol. in England & Wales 1914–31 x. 173 The Celtic system..lasted to reach its height in Roman times, and makes a striking contrast to the *strip cultivation of the Saxon and medieval open fields. 1974C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. iii. 28 These terrace-like features [sc. strip lynchets] on hillsides are the remains of medieval strip cultivation.
1955Sun (Baltimore) 7 Jan. 19/5 Shops in long-established business districts are predominantly in ‘*strip’ developments; that is, strung out along principal highways that bisect the neighborhood. 1980Blair & Ketchum's Country Jrnl. Oct. 68/1 The arrival of new kinds of people or a new industry or housing developments and strip developments loomed all the larger in many small towns.
1943Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 18/1 The corn rows follow the lay of the land on the contour and the land is *strip-farmed..with the corn rows acting as dams to check losses of soil and moisture.
1913A. D. Hall Pilgrimage Brit. Farming xiv. 103 The *strip farming..prevails over all the land [of the Isle of Axholme] which we may suppose to have been dry in medieval times. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England i. 20 Pre-Saxon strip farming has been recognized at sites in Wessex..and in Cumberland, Northumberland and South Scotland.
1949Radio Times 15 July 17/2 Those inter-planetary adventures we find, in *strip form, in almost every comic.
1955Times 6 June 4/5 Some farmers are such convinced believers in *strip grazing that in the larger fields they use two electric fences, one at the feeding face and one as a back fence to keep the animals off the grass that should be starting to grow again. 1975Country Life 26 June 1702/3 Strip-grazing..involves using two swards, one solely for grazing..and used for a succession of years..and the other sward used more often as a shorter ley for conservation.
1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 78/1 One part [of a herd] is housed and milked in a modern and double row cowshed and is *strip-grazed in summer. Ibid. 79/1 The kale is no longer strip-grazed. 1971Power Farming Mar. 29/1 It was particularly useful for direct-drilling kale, which could then be strip grazed. 1976Burnham-on-Sea Gaz. 20 Apr. 22/3 Although being..strip grazed on a paddock system..the herd has shown that it can milk well.
1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 133/1, I shall be going in for milk production. Please suggest a ration based on *strip-grazed beet tops, swedes, kale, hay, oats, barley and beet pulp.
1967Listener 21 Dec. 822/1 The idea of a *strip-heroine for middle-aged onanists is surely a gloomy one.
1898F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 64 Very often the office-holders were *strip-holders or at any rate belonged to families which had held strips.
1901Month Dec. 603 The *strip-holding of arable land which was so universal in England.
1938Flight 21 July 60/1 It is in fact a *strip landing ground with natural wind buffers.
1920S. Lewis Main Street xviii. 221 Sending to Minneapolis for..a *strip light. 1927Proc. Inst. Civil Engin. CCXXIV. 160 The manometer is illuminated by a ‘strip light’. 1963Parker & Smith Scene Design & State Lighting xvi. 292 One form of stage⁓lighting instrument that predates the invention of the incandescent lamp is the striplight, which produces the effect of a line of light by means of a number of sources. 1972P. Lively Driftway i. 1 Big strip lights on the ceiling reached away almost as far as you could see.
1934S. Gold Neon xxii. 61 The question of *strip⁓lighting the building over the entire front is usually entertained only by cinemas.
1981‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous xx. 109 A corridor flanked with *strip-lighted offices.
1926Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (Brit. Engin. Stand. Assoc.) 146 *Strip lighting, a system of lighting in which a number of lamps, usually of tubular form, and installed in line with one another, so as to give the impression of a more or less continuous strip of light. 1934S. Gold Neon xxii. 61 A combination of colours in strip-lighting gives a charming effect to an otherwise straightforward display. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle Little Spy iv. 39 The entrance hall..was brightly lit by indirect strip-lighting set into the ceiling.
1952Proc. IRE XL. 1658/2 In the case of *strip lines, the line conductor is a thin narrow ribbon of metal either cut from sheet or deposited. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 58/2 The military believes recent advances in stripline versions of Butler matrixes..can produce faster memory units. 1974Physics Bull. Apr. 153/3 The copper conductors..are suitable for high resolution stripline and ground plane applications.
1960Guardian 14 Apr. 9/3 Illuminated..by..*strip-lit shelves. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 131 Cat's crap on the strip-lit kitchen floor, musty wine-shop smells from the dining-room, objects tingled to flayed senses.
1884Harper's Mag. July 299/1 Tenderloins, *striploins, sirloins.
[1928Antiquity II. 172 Their..observations..of the..long-strip lynchets of Saxon and medieval times.] 1929Ibid. III. 174 The *strip lynchets..on sloping ground, are made stable..by the facing of masonry. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles vii. 168 Today, where ridge and furrow and strip lynchets are preserved they are generally under permanent pasture. 1983Out of Town June 26/2 Bands of quite difficult ground are often stepped and striped by patterns of ‘strip lynchets’... The strip lynchets..were gradually bitten into the hillslopes by ploughs that were hauled (approximately) along the contours.
1903List New Publications in Daily Chron. 30 July 3/2 ‘The Exeter Road.’ *Strip map. ‘The Liverpool and Manchester Road.’ Strip map. ‘The Carlisle Road’. Strip map. 1906Westm. Gaz. 23 July 10/2 The Strip or Motor-Route Maps.
1910H. P. Tiemann Iron & Steel 286 Bar mills, also called merchant mills or, on account of the special product which they make..rod mill, hoop mill or *strip mill. 1945Times 26 Feb. 5/7 The strip mill for light sheet and tin plate, the continuous billet mill..[etc.] all belong to this type. 1980Times 19 Feb. 2/5 Wide sheet steel from the BSC's strip mills..is widely used in the manufacture of domestic ‘white goods’.
1934Coal Age Oct. 376/3 The spread of trailer operation at Southwestern *strip mines reflects a number of advantages. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 1 July 2-a/4 The high court has dramatized the need for a national strip mine law so that everybody plays according to the same rules in extractable resource development.
1970New Scientist 21 May 364/2 Nuclear explosions are also planned for *strip-mining large deposits of non-ferrous metals in the northern territories. 1978Peace News 6 Oct. 7/2 Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior, gave approval to WEST to strip-mine vast areas of Indian land for coal.
1936Coal Age Oct. 415/1 *Strip-mined coal, under early production conditions,..generally sold at prices substantially under those for deepmined coal. 1980Sci. Amer. Oct. 160/3 The reclamation of strip-mined land involves the relatively simple processes of flattening the piles of overburden, replacing the topsoil and replanting it.
1946Sun (Baltimore) 19 Nov. 4/5 Mark McCauley, Davis (W. Va.) *strip miner convicted of first degree murder..was sentenced to be hanged. 1977Economist 23 Apr. 52/3 Despite the small proportion of stripminers in the United Mineworkers Union, the union as a whole has withdrawn its support for federal legislation.
1935Coal Age Feb. 91/1 This first-and-second method of *strip mining cannot be employed economically with shovel equipment which must operate down in the cut. 1949Hansard Commons 19 May 706 Strip-mining, as it is known in America, and opencast work in regard to gypsum..or any..base metal is essentially a mining problem. Ibid. There were..technicians in the country..familiar with American strip-mining methods. 1977Economist 23 Apr. 52/2 The technique of stripmining—clearing the topsoil above a coal seam to scoop out the coal with bulldozers—once seemed an answer to low productivity.
1898F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 6 The *strip-owners are for the more part colleges.
1969L. S. Mounts in W. R. R. Park Plastics Film Technol. v. 140 Many products can be packaged in water soluble films with advantage. These include..industrial and agricultural products like sprays, chemical additives and *strip packaging of seeds. 1975C. F. Ross Packaging of Pharmaceuticals i. 4 Sachets, filled automatically on suitable strip-packaging machines.
1938Sun (Baltimore) 24 June 12/3 The financial operations..seem likely to leave the Eastern United States with their third ‘*strip park’, the others being the Shenandoah Skyway and the park at Natchez, Miss. 1972Times 7 June 4/3 A number of smaller strip-parks, which people could walk to..would be..useful.
1962Amer. Lithographer Apr. 90/3 An automatically-timed exposure light has been added to the *Strip Printer Photo Composing Machine Model 299. 1965R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures (ed. 3) xiii. 331 The Strip Printer is used to produce lines of type in various sizes on paper or 35 mm. film. 1976Times 8 June 10/5 By adding a simple keyboard and strip printer to a standard telephone, the telephone terminal could..interact with a computer.
1962J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. & Allied Terminol. 769/2 *Strip steak, the steak cut from the loin strip of a beef carcass. 1977Rolling Stone 30 June 111/3 His guitar style is taut and as lean as a strip steak.
1954J. Keith Fifty Yrs. Farming xi. 125 Over a great part of Britain there developed the common-field and *strip system. 1965R. Whitlock Short Hist. Farming in Britain i. 20 In conjunction with the pattern determined by the type of plough, arose the Saxon strip system of fields.
1908Daily Chron. 7 Sept. 1/5 The experiment of substituting *strip tickets for season tickets on the Baker-street and Waterloo, Great Northern and Piccadilly, and Charing-cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railways comes into force on October 1. 1909Ibid. 10 July 4/6 Our London tube strip-tickets.
1860J. Hewitt Arms & Arm. II. 121 In both these sculptures the *strip-work is found on the arms and legs. 1893Reliquary Jan. 16 The third stage has a large window in the south wall; this has decorated strip-work around it.
1907Hobart & Ellis Armature Construction xi. 265 Windings for a *strip-wound barrel type of armature. 1962Times 26 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. vii/2 (Advt.), Hydraulic pressure cylinders in steel, stripwound, etc.
Senses 1 f–k and l in Dict. become 1 g–l and n. Add: [1.] [c.] With def. article and (usu.) capital initial, denoting a particular tract of territory, usu. the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma or the Gaza Strip.( Further examples.)
1873Winfield (Kansas) Courier 22 May 2/3 One Henry House, residing on the strip, about five miles south of this place. 1926C. R. Cooper Oklahoma ii. 23 Most people think it's [sc. the Cherokee Strip] called ‘the Strip’ just because it happens to run all the way across the Territory. 1945M. James Cherokee Strip 36, I regretted there were no canals in the Strip so I could start as a towpath boy and become President of the United States. 1968Observer 28 Jan. 7/2 Non-Arab residents of the strip share the Arab view that punishment is meted out to tens of thousands of people who could not possibly be implicated in the incidents. 1977Times 22 July 14/2 Labour's blueprint for a string of Jewish villages south of Gaza, aimed at sealing off Sinai from the Strip and from Israel.
f. Philately. A row of three or more unseparated postage stamps joined horizontally or vertically.
1911F. J. Melville Chats on Postage Stamps 50 Strip is the philatelic term for three or more stamps unsevered and in the same row, horizontal or vertical. 1934S. Phillips Beginner's Bk. Stamp Collecting xix. 221 A horizontal strip is understood if the word ‘strip’ is used alone. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps iii. 44, 1968 was even quieter. Only four sets, no strange se-tenant strips or funny business. 1982J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 114 The stamps were issued in sheets of 60, arranged in ten strips of six.
m. Broadcasting (orig. U.S.). A period of scheduled programming that occurs at the same time each day (usu. weekday), esp. one with a special theme or particular type of viewing audience; hence, the material presented during this period.
1969–70Jrnl. Broadcasting Winter 75 Eighth and last of the factors to emerge had such items as ‘Time Period’, ‘Trends in Viewing’, ‘Program Balance’, and ‘Building Horizontal and Vertical Strips’. These items refer to methods of program planning, the arrangement of the schedule, and its long range planning. 1977Washington Post 22 Feb. d10/1 The totals included..five-day-a-week strip syndications of old series like ‘Marcus Welby, M.D.’ 1984Atlantic Monthly Aug. 34/2 If a show is a hit,..it is likely to become a Monday-through-Friday ‘strip’.
o. A commercial area along a road leading into a town or city, lined with a variety of small businesses. Freq. attrib. N. Amer. and Austral.
1976Business Week 27 Dec. 136/2 ‘Neighborhood’ shopping centers—strips with a supermarket on one end and a chain drugstore on the other. 1977Fortune Jan. 127/2 This firm also has other investments, owning, for example, more than seventy strip shopping centers in which U.D.F. has stores. 1982Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 20 June 52/1 Last Christmas..the neighborhood Goldblatts store closed and businesses up and down the strip waited in vain for the holiday rush. 1984Chain Store Age Executive May 152/3 One-half of the new off-price shopping centers and strips are newly built, with the rest being conversions of older sites. 1989Sun (Brisbane) 22 Aug. 48/5 The traditional ‘strip’ or street front shopping centre can follow a plan of action to..woo back shoppers lost to newer ‘hardtop’ shopping centres.
[7.] strip city, a metropolitan complex consisting of two or more large cities linked by lines of continuous urban development.
1968J. I. Miller in Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 13 Jan. 68/2 By 1980 or so, 80 per cent of us will live in cities, and the *strip city—Boston to Washington, Los Angeles to San Diego, and Milwaukee to Cleveland—will have made its appearance. 1986New Yorker 1 Dec. 74/3 Greater Denver is in the process of becoming a sprawling megalopolis—one vast strip city along the Front Range, the eastern flank of the Rockies.
▸ strip mall n. orig. U.S. a (freq. suburban) shopping centre consisting of a row or group of (usually adjoining) shops, restaurants, etc., typically facing a shared parking lot.
1977Bucks Country (Pa.) Courier Times 10 July a8/2 Lincoln Plaza would have been better off as a *strip mall rather than an enclosed mall. 1987Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Dec. e1 A local strip mall offers a convenience store, beauty salon and banking. 1997L. Battle Bed & Breakfast vii. 149 Cam noted the huge, sterile parking lot.., the strip-mall stores with the Wal-Mart anchor illuminated by ghostly lights.
▪ III. strip, n.3|strɪp|
[f. strip v.1]
1. pl. Tobacco-leaf with the stalk and midrib removed. Also strip-leaf.
1844Rep. Sel. Comm. Tobacco Trade, Min. Evid. 232 The consequence of the permission which is given to import strips at the same duty as leaf is, that the stalks are exported from America to the Continent. 1845Dodd Brit. Manuf. V. 133 ‘Strip-leaf’..is the technical name for tobacco from which the stem of the leaf has been taken away before the latter is packed in the hogshead. 1904Daily Chron. 6 May 6/3 His whole imports in March were 133 hogsheads of ‘strips’ and nineteen hogsheads of leaf tobacco.
2. colloq. (orig. U.S.). An act or the practice of removing one's clothes or of striptease. See also strip v.1 27 b.
1928Variety 12 Dec. 46/3 Why do women principals try to do strip numbers against the competition of experienced runway specialists?.. Columbia, by the way, seems to be leery of the limit in strip at this telling. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) v. 54 He kept on doing this slow elaborate strip. 1966Guardian 9 July 8/3 Perhaps ten [clubs] provide regular striptease. Up to ten provide strip occasionally. 1971R. Petrie Thorne in Flesh vi. 86 Dahlia does a strip... I auction the things she takes off.
Add:3. U.S. Comm. In full strip bond: a fixed-interest bond of which the principal and interest coupons are sold separately to investors. Cf. *strip v.1 27 c.
1982Bond Buyer 19 May 18/1 The Treasury..appears poised to close the door on the officially discouraged practice of selling ‘strip bonds’ engaged in by some government securities dealers. 1987Financial Rev. 15 Oct. 10/1 Conversations are peppered with an arcane vocabulary... Strips, butterflies and spreads.
▪ IV. strip, n.4 Sc.|strɪp|
[Prob. a back-formation from stript var. of striped a.]
= stripe n.2
In some dialects of Scotland the form stripe in this sense is unknown in genuine vernacular speech; ‘strips’ is the only word, e.g. for the stripes of a tiger or a zebra.
1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 80 The strips or streaks lie all of them exactly parallel to one another, and exactly parallel to the bed of the stone. 1843J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet 304 They wont be long in having sergeant's strips of their arms. 1914Brit. Mus. Return 94 Green ewer with waved strip below the handle, found in Dora.
†b. attrib. or adj. Striped. Obs.
1666in Maitland Club Miscell. (1840) II. 539 For six yeardis of strip silk stuff..015 08 00.
▪ V. strip, v.1|strɪp|
Pa. tense and pa. pple. stripped |strɪpt|, stript. Forms: 1 -strýpan, 3 strupen, 3–6 stripe, 4–6 strype, 4 strepe, streepe, struype, 4–6 stryppe, 4–7 strippe, 5 streppe, 7 stripp, 6– strip. pa. tense 1 -strýpte, -strípte, 3 strepte, streopte, strupte, 5 strypid, striput, strepid, strope, 6 stryp(p)ed, 6– stripped, stript. pa. pple. 1 -strýped, 3 istruped, 4 i-strupt, i-stripte, 5 strypte, striped, 6 stryp(p)ed, striped, 7 strip'd, 5– stripped, 6– stript.
[ME. stripe, strepe, strupe (ü):—OE. *stríepan, *strépan, *strýpan (whence be-strýpan to plunder, despoil: see bestrip v.), corresp. to MLG., MDu. strôpen (mod.Du. stroopen), to plunder, strip, MHG. ströufen to skin, chastise (mod.G. streifen to strip off):—WGer. *straupjan; the Teut. root *straup-: *strup- prob. occurs also in MHG. strupfen to strip off, and possibly in strop n.
The normal mod. form of the present-stem would be *stripe; the shortening of the vowel prob. took place first before the two consonants in the pa. tense and pa. pple. stript, and hence extended to the pres.-stem.
The mod.Du. strippen to strip (tobacco), sometimes cited as cognate, is prob. from Eng.]
I. To unclothe, denude.
1. a. trans. To divest (a person, body) of clothing; to undress, make bare or naked. Often more definitely with compl. or phrase, to strip naked, to strip to the skin, (strip to the buff). Const. of, † out of (one's clothing); down, off, in intr. for refl. use.
a1225Juliana 16 He het hatterliche strupen hire steort naket. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 807 Ye dide me streepe out of my poure weede And richely me cladden. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 221 [Heo] was i-stripte and i-scourged [L. exspoliata flagellaretur]. c1440Promp. Parv. 480/1 Strypyn, or streppyn, or make nakyd, nudo, denudo. c1450Mirk's Festial 121 Þay buffed hym and bobbyd hym, and aftyr striput hym naked. 1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §2 They shall strype hym naked from the myddel upwarde & cause hym to be whypped. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xix. (1912) 272 For there they began to strip her of her clothes, when I came in among them. 1592Timme Ten Eng. Lepers vii. I j, Her husband..might strip her out of her clothes,..and beat her openly. 1657N. Billingsley Brachy-Martyrol. xxxii. 119 Strip, strip, man, woman, child,..Leave not a rag on, turn them out of doors. 1697Dryden æneis ii. 534 Thus Ripheus, Dymas, all the Trojan Train, Lay down their own Attire and strip the slain. 1825Scott Talism. v, He beheld the anchorite stripping his shoulders with frantic haste of their shaggy mantle. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lxv, It meant stripping him naked,..and then beating him to death with rods.
refl.c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 714 Anon he preyde hire strepen hire al naked. c1450Gesta Rom. xiii. 43 He strepid him, and shewid his woundis. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 147 Who led me instantly vnto his Caue, There stript him⁓selfe. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 27, I made some difficulty to accept of the profers they made me to strip themselves naked. 1720Prior Truth & Falshood 23 The Nymph..Stript her self naked to the skin. 1839Lane Arab. Nts. I. 78 He then stripped himself, and dived round the net. 1872[see buff n.2 3].
intr. for refl.1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 31 Benches, where you sit down, and lay your cloaths after you have stript. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 308 The other, being a good swimmer, stripped and put off to it. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lv, Now that other lads than I Strip to bathe on Severn shore. 1947‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 22 You're not supposed to strip off but I had. 1962D. Francis Dead Cert xi. 124 I'm glad it's you that's got to strip off and get soaked, and not me. 1976D. Barnes Yesterday is Dead ii. 272 After taking a leak he'd strip down and jack off.
†b. fig. phr. [Cf. Fr. ‘se despouiller avant que se coucher’ (Cotgr.).]
1675South Serm. (1692) 571 Some fond, easy Fathers think fit to strip themselves before they lie down to their long sleep, and to settle their whole Estates upon their Sons.
c. transf. (jocular nonce-use).
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 274 Therefore on, or strippe your sword starke naked.
d. To divest (a person, oneself) of outer garments, or of some specified outer garment. Const. of, † out of. Sometimes in phr. to strip to, † strip into, † strip unto (the shirt or other inner garment).
c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 233 He strypid hir anoon left al delay, Vn-to hir smok. 1530Tindale Gen. xxxvii. 23 They strypte him [Ioseph] out of his gay coote that was vpon him. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 63 Diverse offenders..came wel appareled to Westmynster & sodeynly stryped them into their shertes. a1627H. Shirley Mart. Soldier v. (1638) I 1 b, How comes she to this habite? Went she thus in? Epid. No Sir, mine owne hands stript her into rags. 1671Milton Samson 1188 Then like a Robber [thou] stripdst them of thir robes. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 133, I have known mechanics frequently contract fatal diseases, by working stript at an open window. 1822Byron Juan vii. lxxiii, An old man..besmear'd with dust, Stript to his waistcoat. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. viii, Two or three archers showed themselves, stripped of their tunics, and only attired in their shirts and hose. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xvi, He had already stripped himself of his wrappings,..and..at once followed Clara to the squire's room.
fig.1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 68 Ther fore our Admirall strips himself to his shirt; viz. he stays before the towne only with 3 shipps more.
e. intr. for refl. Also of an athlete, a pugilist, etc.: To take off one's ordinary wearing apparel in preparation for a contest. to strip (well, etc.): to have a good body, to have a pleasing appearance when stripped.
1688Bunyan Heavenly Footm. (1724) 27 If thou intendest to win, thou must Strip, thou must lay aside every Weight. 1711Steele Spect. No. 51 ⁋5 [The author] in the Rover, makes a Country Squire strip to his Holland Drawers... The Pleasantry of Stripping almost Naked has been since practised..very successfully at Bartholomew Fair. 1815T. Belcher Art of Boxing ix. 33 James Belcher..stripped remarkably well, and displayed much muscle. 1833Q. Rev. XLIX. 391 Whether it be the prize-fighter who strips in the ring, or the race-horse at the starting-post. 1887Shearman Athletics 73 A sprinter, too, to use a cant phrase of pedestrianism, ‘strips big’—i.e. looks bigger stripped than he does in his clothes. 1932D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase ix. 106 He strips better than I should have expected... Better shoulders than I realised, and, thank Heaven, calves to his legs. 1955T. H. Pear English Social Differences ix. 201 Such boys, to use the drill-instructor's expression, ‘strip better’.
f. trans. To deprive of armour, insignia, ornaments; also fig. Also const. † out of.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 148 To ransake in the taas of bodyes dede, Hem for to strepe of harneys and of wede. 1592Stow Ann. 665 His souldiors were stripped out of their harnes, and let go. 1622C. Fitzgeffrey Elisha 24 Doe they ake to bee..stripped [printed shipped] of their Jewels as the Israelites were? 1784Cowper Task vi. 640 What heathen would have dar'd To strip Jove's statue of his oaken wreath, And hang it up in honour of a man? 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. iv, Caron..regains his Lawsuit..; strips Reporter Goezman of the judicial ermine. 1866T. Seaton Cadet to Colonel II. iii. 86 The mutineers were stripped of their uniforms.
†g. To discharge (a liveried servant). Obs.
1756Foote Engl. ret. fr. Paris i. Wks. 1799 I. 97 If you suffer that fellow to enter my doors again, I'll strip and discard you the very minute.
h. To remove the clothing of (a racehorse); also intr. of a horse, to undergo this process.
1730Cheny List Horse-Matches 35 The three..run all on the wrong side a Post, at doing which Sweetest when naked broke away to the Place where they strip'd her. 1857G. A. Lawrence Guy Liv. ix. 83 The bell for saddling rang, and the horses came out. The mare stripped beautifully, as fine as a star. 1860Baily's Mag. I. 110 We have never seen a better-looking lot of two-year olds stripped at so early a period of the year. 1897National Police Gaz. 26 May 14/2 It is fully expected that he will not only strip in much better fettle at Epsom than he did for the Guineas, but run a remarkably different horse altogether. 1973Times 26 Feb. 12/8 Skymas runs in the Wills Premier Chase at Haydock this week, and will certainly strip fit.
i. intr. To perform a strip-tease act. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1929Variety 25 Sept. 53/3 She has the unadornment stuff to herself, since the other gals never strip beyond regulation soub garb. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 68 She stripped teasily for binocular man. 1962J. D. MacDonald Girl, Gold Watch & Everything vii. 86 I'm working a place, Rio's, up North Miami, singing and sort of stripping some, but not down to raw. 1976‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) ii. 49 ‘Jocko said you used to be a stripper.’ ‘Yeah, but..I haven't been stripping for seven, eight years now.’
2. fig.
a. To divest or dispossess (a person, oneself) of attributes, titles, rights, honours, offices, etc. Const. † out of, † from, of.
c1320Castle of Love 431 in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 366 Ne helpeþ him no þing..Þat his fo..I-strupt him al start-naked, Of miȝt and strengþe al bare I-maked. 1561Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtier ii. (1900) 117 The prince stripping himself of the person of a prince, and minglinge himself equallye with his underlinges. 1608Shakes. Lear iv. iii. 45 (Qos.) His own vnkindnes That stript her from his benediction. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 621 Stephen afterwards stript him out of these Honours. 1663Patrick Parab. Pilgrim x. (1687) 56 He ought to strip him⁓self of all undue affections to the world. 1675Bunyan Saved by Grace Wks. (1692) 561/1 Of his Godhead he could not strip himself. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. v. (1782) I. 148 Many cities of the east were stript of their ancient honours. 1851Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. i. (1864) 2 He stripped the so-called religious party..of their respectability. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 126 Queensberry was stripped of all his employments. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xxiv. 245 The cardinal stripped him of his deanery. 1906C. Bigg Wayside Sk. Eccl. Hist. iii. 81 Strip him of his mantle of Euphuism and you will find him always sensible and candid.
b. To denude or divest (a thing) of attributes.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxv. §3 There is no necessitie of stripping sacraments out of all such attire of Ceremonies as mans wisedome hath at any time clothed them withall. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. xi. §7 When I shall see any of those Combatants, strip all his Terms of Ambiguity and Obscurity,..I shall think him a Champion for Knowledge, Truth, and Peace. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 272 Some⁓times I have seen that resplendent globe, stript of her radiance. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxix, Your friend, sir, must at least strip his proposals of their fine gilding. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 39 The canonical writings have, in the process, been stripped of every claim to our regard. 1859Jephson Brittany x. 161, I doubt the wisdom of stripping all social events of everything that appeals to the imagination. 1908Programme of Modernism 223 The ecclesiastical authority..should strip itself of that external pomp which adorns it in the eyes of the public.
c. To expose the character or nature of (a person or thing).
1619H. Hutton Follies Anat. B 7, Shutting my Muse in silence, least she strip This Saint-like creature with a Satyres whip. 1781Cowper Charity 494 He hides behind a magisterial air His own offences, and strips others bare. 1781― Expost. 141 He stripp'd th' impostors in the noon-day sun; Show'd that they follow'd all they seem'd to shun.
3. To plunder, spoil; to deprive totally (whether justly or otherwise) of possessions, or of something specified; to render destitute.
†a. without const. Obs.
For slang uses see quot. a 1700.
a1225Juliana 62 Þu..deidest..ant stepe adun & struptest [MS. Bodl. herhedest] helle. c1425Eng. Conq. Ireland 144 Thay [the governors of Ireland]..pulled & strope ham that non harme dydde. 1612S. Rid Art of Jugling C 4 b, He that hath the first dice, is like alwaies to stripp and rob all the table about. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 530 They also brought off 50 wounded men, and divers of the dead with them, the enemy haveing not then stript the feild. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Strip, c. to Rob or Gut a House, to unrig any Body, or to Bite them of their Money. Strip the ken, c. to Gut the House. Strip the Table, c. to Winn all the Money on the Place.
b. const. of. Common in 17–18th c. and in the 20th.
1594Selimus Greene's Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 216 We that haue fought with mighty Prester John, And stript th' ægyptian soldan of his camp. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andria iv. v. 86 Despoliavit nos omnibus. He hath not left vs a dish to eate our meat in. He hath stript vs of al. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 143 Many a one here is borne to a fair estate, and is strip't of it. a1716South Serm. (1727) VI. 114 An endeavour to strip him of his Friends. 1726Whole Art Mod. Gaming 27 It is about a thousand to one but he is so unlucky, as to come away clean stript of all his Money. 1727[E. Dorrington] Philip Quarll (1816) 78 Yearly stripping the eagles of their eggs had prevented their increase. 1737in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 266 His fate was to be strip'd of all he had in Sweden. 1769Robertson Chas. V, vii. Wks. 1851 IV. 200 [They] in the space of a few weeks, stripping him entirely of his dominions, drove him..to take refuge in the court of Bavaria. 1881‘Mark Twain’ Prince & Pauper xxxiii. 385 The pickpockets had stripped him of his last farthing. 1919G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House ii. 81 Are you one of those who are so sufficient to themselves that they are only happy when they are stripped of everything, even of hope? 1936J. Buchan Island of Sheep i. vii. 130 They had only to get hold of Haraldsen..to strip him bit by bit of his possessions. 1950C. S. Forester Midshipman Hornblower 262 The last visit of Spanish ships of war had stripped the place of almost all its stores, and many of the dockyard hands had been pressed as seamen at the same time.
c. To deprive or rid (a substance or thing) of.
1675G. Harvey Dis. Lond. xxiv. 265 The Basis whereof is Antimony stripped of its venenous Sulphur. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 491 Macquer first discovered, that Prussiated Iron, or Berlin blue, might be stripped of the tinging matter by digestion with alkalis. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 71 Plants are often stripped of their colours by the operation of the same agents through which they originally acquired them.
4. a. To denude (a thing) of its covering, esp. (a tree) of its bark, (a seed) of its skin, (a fruit) of its rind.
a1225Ancr. R. 148 Heo haueð bipiled mine figer—irend of al þe rinde, despoiled [MS. C. istruped] hire sterc naked. 1660in Verney Mem. (1904) II. 99 A greate parcell of silke wch was that day to bee delivered, and at the day of delivery we have a little trouble in weighing of itt, stripping of itt, and severall other things. 1727–46Thomson Summer 688 Thou best anana,..Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove! 1823W. Cobbett Rur. Rides (1853) 163 They have been stripping trees (taking the bark off) about five or six days. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 184/1 When the seed is stripped of its testa. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Strip, to bark the oak tree.
b. To pull off the winter growth of hair from (a dog); to pluck. Cf. stripping vbl. n.1 1 a.
1930E. C. Ash Pract. Dog Bk. xi. 197 Stripping a coat is in the varieties of Terriers most important. Powdered chalk is well rubbed into it. The long hair is then plucked out. 1931Daily Tel. 21 May 1/3 Dogs stripped.
†5. To skin (an animal; in Hunting spec. a hare). Obs.
c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxiv, Þenne shulde she [sc. the hare] be stripped all, saue the heede. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Hunting e iii b, Now to speke of the bestes when thay be slayne How many be strypte and how many be flayne. All that bere skyne and talow and Rounge leue me Shall be flayne safe the hare for he shall stripte be. 1530Tindale Lev. i. 6 And let the burntofferynges be strypped and hewed in peces. 1575Turberv. Venerie 100 An hart or a bucke is flayed, a hare strypped. 1677N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. (ed. 2) 15 The Hare is Stripped or Cased. 1770G. White Selborne, Let. to Pennant Mar., Understanding that it was not stripped, I proceeded to examine this rare quadruped [sc. a moose].
6. To deprive (a plant of its foliage or fruit); to remove (seed or grain from the straw).
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 504 Crop luxuriant Straglers, nor be loath To strip the Branches of their leafy Growth. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 87 The Rook is a subtil Fowl, and will strip a Walnut Tree in a little time. 1759Mills tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. ii. (1762) 3 We sometimes see trees strip'd by insects. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 74 If the upper part of a branch is stripped of its leaves. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 110 The plan of stripping the corn from the straw by means of a scutcher.
7. a. To empty, make bare, clear out (a place, thing) of its contents, ornaments, etc.
1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii. 59 The bowels of our mother were not ript For Mader-pits, nor the sweet meadowes stript Of their choise beauties. 1753Challoner Cath. Chr. Instr. 220 Our Altars are also uncovered and stript of all their Ornaments. 1765Lond. Chron. 14–17 Sept. 272/1 And while she went in a fright, to see if it was true, he [a thief] in the mean time stripped the room of things to the value of 30 shillings. 1826Lamb Pop. Fallacies xi, His goodly shelves are one by one stript of his favourite old authors. 1828–32Webster, Strip,..7. To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as, cattle strip the ground of its herbage. 1894Bridges Feast of Bacchus i. 112, I stripped the house for a sale. 1913J. H. Morrison On Trail of Pioneers xxvi. 125 It was no loss when the islands were stripped of the fragrant wood.
b. to strip up: (see quot. 1893). Now dial.
1664Evelyn Sylva xxvii. 72 Cutting all the rest away..stripping up such as you spare from their extravagant Branches. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Strip up, to shroud [i.e. trim] the lower part of a tree, as is usually done with hedge⁓row timber at intervals.
†c. Used with allusion to strip n.1 Obs.
1682tr. Charter of Cinque Ports 138 Strip or Estrepement is a Writ for taking Lands from him that strips and spoils them. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 409 This may excuse the trustees, if they..attempt to strip the estate of the timber.
d. ? To clear (land) of a crop.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 2 The reason for stripping turnips is to supply food to the sheep in the most convenient form. The portion of the turnip ground allotted to sheep is..drawn or stript, that is, a certain proportion of the turnips is left on the ground, for the use of the sheep, and the other is carried away to the steading, to be consumed by the cattle. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 14/1 Of this quantity 320,000 acres were not reaped..or what crop there was was mown for hay. This reduces the area actually stripped for wheat to 1,630,000 acres.
e. slang (orig. U.S.). To unpack or unload (a load, container, lorry, etc.).
[1950Western Folklore IX. 119 Pulled, stripped, or gutted a load, lost a load of logs.] 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 45 Strip a load, v. phr., to unload a truck. 1968Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Sept. 34/2 Management agreed to allow the dockworkers to strip and stuff containers in which mixed types of cargo had been packed. 1970Times 16 Sept. (Road Haulage Suppl.) p. vii/9 The [overladen] container..should be devanned (or stripped, to use container parlance) and delivered on two vehicles. 1972Guardian 8 May 20/2 According to the dockers' leader..those terms..are for..the same guarantees over ‘stuffing’ (packing) and ‘stripping’ (unpacking) the containers. 1973Amer. Speech 1969 XLIV. 208 Strip her, unload a trailer.
8. To take away the accessories, equipment, or furniture of; to dismantle. Now freq. in contexts of the inspection or repair of motor vehicles, engines, etc. Also with down. Cf. stripped ppl. a. c.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiv. xxii. §2. 207 Thus the first Quarter is Stript..in order to be distributed. Ibid. xxiv. Dict. 391 Strip a Form. [Reference to prec. quot.] 1688Holme Armoury iii. 125/2 [Printing] Strip a Form, is to take away all the Furniture from about it, and lett it so remain on the Letter board to be distributed. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v., To Strip the masts, is to unrig a ship, or deprive the masts of their machinery and furniture. 1798in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. p. clvi, The Guerrier and Conquerant made a very inefficient resistance, the latter being soon stripped of her main and mizen-masts. 1807Sir R. Wilson Jrnl. 24 Sept. in Life (1862) II. viii. 370 When the squall passed we attempted to hoist the sails again but again we were stripped. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Stripped to the Girt-line, all the standing-rigging and furniture having been cleared off the masts in the course of dismantling. 1881Greener Gun 262 Stripping and repairing guns. To take to pieces a breech-loader for cleaning or repairs, first remove the fore⁓end and barrels. Ibid., To strip breech-actions,..the first thing will be to remove the spring. Ibid. 263 To strip a muzzle-loader, first remove the lock. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 134 Strip a forme, to take away the furniture from the pages of a forme, and thus leave it naked. 1937Discovery May 164/1 Part of the necessary machinery could not be stripped down to parts small enough to be carried by mules over the narrow and difficult trails. 1958Listener 13 Nov. 778/1 He drives the thing [sc. a car] straight into the repair shop at the back and has it stripped down. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 20 Oct. 10/4 At the end of 36,000 miles the engines were stripped and every component measured and meticulously examined. 1981B. Hines Looks & Smiles 26 His bike..had also been stripped down to the frame.
II. To doff, take off, peel away.
9. To remove (the clothes, a garment, trappings, hair) from a person, body.
a. With adv. off, away, or with prep. off, from.
c1290St. Francis 11 in S. Eng. Leg. 54 He strepte of is cloþes of is rug and ȝaf þis pouere knyȝt. c1290Beket 2201 ibid. 169 Ase heo strepten of is cloþes, al a-boue heo founde Clerkene cloþes. 13..Coer de L. 3399 And loke that hee her here off strype, Off hed, off berd, and eke off lyppe. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 143 And to the hors he goth hym faire and wel, He strepeth of the brydel right anon. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 173 Þis Cambises..made men stripe of þe skyn of a iuge, for he hadde i-ȝeue a false dome. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 220 This Prince..stript off his gorgious habilliments. 1797Ht. Lee Canterb. T., Old Woman's T. (1799) I. 389 Stripping away his upper garment, and displaying the badge of knighthood upon his shoulder. 1895R. W. Chambers King in Yellow, etc. (1909) 255 As she spoke she stripped off her gloves.
fig.1340Ayenb. 98 Þet hi ous delyuri of þe zeue dyadliche zennes and hise strepe of al oure herten and ine hare stede zette..þe zeue uirtues. 1549J. Olde Erasm. Par. Ephes. Prol. {fatpara}iiij b, Christe woulde not stycke cleane on our backes, onlesse olde Adam be stryped cleane of, wyth all his ragged rotten patches of infidelitie and sinfulnes. 1766J. Towers Brit. Biog. I. 127 [Chaucer] discovered nature in all her appearances, and stripped off every disguise. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 583 Habits are soon assum'd: but, when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flay'd alive. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §1. 115 Picture after picture strips the veil from the corruption of the mediæval Church. 1884L. J. Jennings Croker Papers I. i. 3 The immense correspondence of all kinds which he left strips away disguises.
b. without adv.: To divest oneself of. Chiefly Sc.
1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. cii, [She] never once attempted to strip a single petticoat, or cover the board, as her last stake, with her head-clothes. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. vi. vi, The guests all stript their coats. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 212 Aleck stripped his buckskins for the attempt. 1870J. K. Hunter Life Studies xliv. 271 They..had a consultation as to whether..one of them should strip his stockings and shoon and carry the other on his back.
fig.1853Lytton My Novel xii. xxx, Strip the mask, Audley Egerton; let the world know you for what you are!
†10. To take as plunder or spoil. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom 195 Erest he strepte of him his shep. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. i. 11 For all the Temporall Lands..Would they strip from vs. 1791Cowper Iliad xvii. 102 He knew at once who stripp'd Euphorbus' arms.
11. a. To remove (an adhering covering of skin, bark, lead, paper, etc.); to pull off (leaves, fruit) from a tree, etc.; to remove (paint or varnish) from woodwork, etc. Also to strip off. Cf. stripped ppl. a. b.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 27 Take Almaundys..& strype of þe skyn. 1486Bk. St. Albans b iij b, Take a knyfe..and stripe the skynne a way from the necke. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 86/2 [Wett-Glover.] Pulling is stripping the Wooll of the skin. Ibid. iii. 97/1 [Cushion and Bed Terms.] Stripping the Feathers from the Quills. 1697Dryden æneis i. 295 Some strip the Skin, some portion out the Spoil. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekeeper (1778) 363 Gather your currants when the sun is hot upon them, strip them from the stalks. c1770H. Glasse Compl. Confectioner 26 Take young and thick stalks of angelica.., strip off the skins, and cut them into narrow slips. 1780Mirror No. 93 ⁋8 The best china was set out... The covers were stripped from the worked chair-bottoms. 1836Philos. Mag. Dec. 484 So perfect is the sheet of copper thus formed, that, on being stripped off, it has the polish and even a counterpart of every scratch of the plate on which it is deposited. 1849M. Taylor's Builder's Price-bk. 63 Stripping and relaying ladies, countess, and duchess slating, per square, 0 10 0. 1854Poultry Chron. II. 22 Directly the feathers are stripped from the poultry, throw them loosely in the corner. 1888W. J. Harrison Hist. Photogr. xiii. 112 In the same year (1855) the Frenchman, Galliard, coated collodion negatives with gelatine, and then stripped them from the glass. 1891Law Rep., Weekly Notes 78/2 The act of the defendants in stripping off the roof amounted to a forcible entry. 1908P. N. Hasluck Cassell's House Decoration 171/2 All the washing and stripping should be done first. The wallpaper must be removed, and the paint stripped. 1913J. G. Frazer Psyche's Task (ed. 2) iii. 30 When he has stripped the fruit [from the tree], the rascal restores the charm to its proper place. 1956Pract. Householder July 596/1 A number of preparations..are intended to strip off only one coat at a time... I prefer the type which strips several coats. 1981New Homemaker Apr. 90/1 (Advt.), Stripping isn't the soul-destroying job it used to be... Powerful Ronseal strips without scraping.
b. intr. Of bark, membrane: To lend or adapt itself to the process of peeling or decortication. Of a layer of metal: To become detached.
1877Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. i. (1890) 15 In the spring, when the oak timber is throwed (because, you see, the sap be rising, and the bark strips then). 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 712 The leptomeninges stripping, on the contrary, with undue ease. 1905Electro-plating (ed. P. N. Hasluck) 152 Silver will strip under the burnisher when it is deposited too fast or too slow.
12. To remove, roll up (a sleeve). Now only with up. Also absol.
1599Shakes. Hen V, iv. iii. 47 Then will he strip his sleeue, and shew his skarres. 1607B. Barnes Divils Charter Prol. A 2 b, Presently the Pronotary strippeth vp Alexanders sleeue and letteth his arme bloud in a saucer. 1711‘J. Distaff’ Char. Don Sacheverellio 5 He stript up, and shew'd..a most thundring Arm. c1815Houlston's Juvenile Tracts vii. 9 If his shirt sleeves were stripped up to his elbows.
13. To slip off (a jewel) from the arm, a ring from the finger.
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iv. 101, I begge but leaue to ayre this Iewell... She stript it from her Arme. 1652J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea ii. 186 Strip from your fingers your gold rings. 1865A. Cary Ball., Lyrics & Hymns 117 She stript from her finger the shining ring.
14. To remove entirely, clear off (vegetation). Also, to harvest (a crop).
1839F. A. Kemble Resid. Georgia (1863) 261 They have almost stripped the trees and thickets along the swamp road since I first came here. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. & Agric. Austral. & N.Z. i. 6 Twenty acres of grain can be stripped per day. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 2/7 The corn almost ready to strip. 1979Verbatim Summer 8/1 In Queensland a wheat crop is headed, in Victoria stripped.
III. Technical uses.
15. Tin-washing. (See quot. 1674.) Also to wash out (gold).
1674Ray Prep. Tin (E.D.S.) 12 Washing and sifting of it, which they call stripping of it. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 54 The tin gravel is ‘stripped’ at a cost of 3s. to 6s. per ton. 1871Simpson Recit. 19 The wash dirt will be full of gold, ready to strip.
16. a. Tobacco-manuf. To remove the leaves from the stems of (tobacco). Also absol.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xxii. (Roxb.) 274/1 Termes used by Tobacconists. Strip it, is take all the stalks away from the leaues. 1786Act 26 Geo. III, c. 52 §1 No..Tobacco stalks stripped, nor Snuff manufactured from Tobacco so imported, shall be removed [etc.]. 1883Killebrew Rep. Culture & Curing Tobacco U.S. 154 If there should happen to be no damp days when it is desired to strip, a few days in the cellar will impart the necessary moisture. Ibid. 186 In stripping tobacco, the leaves are pulled from the stalks and tied in bundles.
b. To remove the stalk and midrib from (tobacco-leaf). Cf. stem v.4 3 a.
1844Rep. Sel. Comm. Tobacco Trade, Min. Evid. 233 Tobacco could be stripped here at from 18d. to 2s. a cwt. 1881Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts iv. 1341 Cutting is the process by which the damped [tobacco-]leaves, whether stripped or not, are most extensively prepared for smoking in pipes and cigarettes.
17. a. Mech. To tear off (the thread from a screw or bolt, the teeth from a wheel).
1873Nelthropp Watch-work 21 The teeth of the scape⁓wheel will, by revolving against the jagged edge, be cut off; the wheel is then stript. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2430 Strip (Machinery), to tear the thread off a screw.
b. To rip off the screw thread of (a cannon-ball or bullet); to render incapable of receiving the rotatory direction from the rifling of the barrel.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 477 Instead of one quarter of a turn, which was the utmost that could be safely given in the old way, without danger of stripping the ball, a whole turn round the barrel, in its length, can be given to the two grooved rifles.
c. intr. for refl.
1854Chamb. Jrnl. II. 202 If the charge of gunpowder be inordinately great, the ball may strip, to use the technical phrase; in other words, it may have its screw-thread rendered ineffective by the mere force of discharge. 1855A. Piper Milit. & Nav. Dict. s.v., A rifle bullet is said to strip when it passes out of the barrel of a rifle..without receiving the spiral motion on its axis. 1881Greener Gun 169 Immediately the barrel gets hot and expands, the bullets strip. 1978D. Bagley Flyaway xxv. 230 I've got a spare differential... The bastards are always stripping so I've made it a habit to keep a spare.
18. Mining. To lay bare (a mineral deposit, etc.): see quot. 1839.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 842 If..the vein be quite distinct from the rock, the labour may be facilitated, as well as the separation of the ore, by disengaging the vein on one of its faces through a certain extent, the rock being attacked separately. This operation is called stripping the vein. 1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxxvi. 490 On ‘stripping’ the fault towards the trough, the limestone was found to be in contact with a seam of coal. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 9 Dec. 1/4 Mr. Morgan has..now as the phrase goes, ‘stripped the lode’, so that many thousands of tons of stone, richly laden with gold, are ready to be stoped.
19. To smooth (a metal surface) by filing or the like; to smooth the surface of (a file-blank) preparatory to cutting the teeth; also see quot. 1880.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 301 The file is now in a state either to be stripped or ground. 1855Franke Beil's Technol. Wörterb. II. 521 To Strip a piece of work (to finish-off with a smooth file, or to smooth the surface with a hard file), Abfeilen. Finir de limer. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 279/2 The [gun-]barrels are then ‘stripped’—that is, turned down the whole length to correspond with the bore. 1898J. Southward Mod. Printing I. 96 [The leads are finished] by ‘stripping’, or ‘shaving’, in a stripping machine.
20. Carding.
a. (See quot. 1835.)
b. To remove fluff, etc. from the teeth of (a card).
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 182 Which cylinder is employed as a stripper in place of a doffing-comb, to take off or strip the slivers of wool from the doffing cylinder. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Stripper, the man who strips the cards or leather combs of fluff.
21. Cloth-making. (See quot. 1904.)
1896W. M. Gardner Wool Dyeing 32 This process is frequently resorted to for ‘stripping’ off the colour of dyed material previous to re-dyeing. 1904Eng. Dial. Dict., Strip v.,..A cloth-making term: to partially remove the colour from dyed material when the colour is found to be too ‘full.’
22. Metallurgy. (See quot.)
1884W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron (ed. 2) § 642 Steel ingots, when newly stripped—that is, withdrawn from the moulds in which they have been cast—are far too hot in the interior for immediate rolling.
23. Electrometallurgy. To remove (the plating from a plated article, the metal from a positive pole, etc.) by electrolysis. Also intr. of a plating: To come off.
1877A. Watt Electro-Metallurgy (ed. 6) 155 In coating steel or iron articles with nickel, deposition should not be allowed to take place too rapidly at first, otherwise the metal will be liable to strip. 1880Ibid. (ed. 7) 114 Nickel⁓plated articles may be stripped in this solution by immersing them in it for a few moments. 1880J. W. Urquhart Electroplating vi. 162 Deposits of nickel having a brilliant appearance on leaving the solution..are very apt to strip. 1898Threlfall Laboratory Arts iv. 306 The platinum foil testing cathode may also be ‘stripped’ by making it an anode.
24. Physics.
a. To deprive (an atom or ion) of an electron, or (a molecule) of an atom. Also absol.
1933O. H. Blackwood et al. Outl. Atomic Physics xiv. 305 Throughout the interior of a star, atoms do not exist in what we consider their ordinary conditions... Near the center of the star they are assumed to be stripped of nearly all their planetary electrons. 1936Trans. Faraday Soc. XXXII. 350 One empirical molar weight of C2H4S4 in suspension in water is first ‘stripped’ of two sulphur atoms with sodium hydroxide. 1954H. E. Huntley Nuclear Species i. 4 By stripping the atoms which lay in its path of one or more of its orbital electrons the swiftly moving particle produced large numbers of positively charged ions and free electrons. 1969Times 22 Apr. 6/3 Large amounts of energy are needed to strip the calcium atoms of their electrons before accelerating them into the target of plutonium atoms. 1970Sci. Amer. Aug. 32/3 The ions are stripped not only in the terminal but also halfway down the positive acceleration column. 1978L. Vályi Atom & Ion Sources i. 35 At low impact energies only the outer shell can be stripped of its electron.
b. To remove (an electron or other particle) from an atom, ion, nucleus, etc. Also const. off.
1935B. Jaffe Outposts of Science ix. 349 This recoiling nucleus spends its energy of motion in stripping electrons from other atoms near it. 1947Physical Rev. LXXII. 1003 A simple theory of neutron production, according to which the proton is ‘stripped’ from the deuteron by striking a target nucleus. 1958Ann. Physics III. 275 In a deuteron stripping reaction, the rôle of the incident deuteron is to present at the target nucleus surface a neutron or proton ready to be captured (or ‘stripped’ off). 1979Sci. Amer. Aug. 122/2 The star..becomes a white dwarf: a star with a core consisting of a highly compressed gas of atomic nuclei (mostly helium nuclei) and the electrons stripped from them.
25. a. Oil Industry. To separate (crude oil or gas) into fractions, to fractionate; to extract or recover (a light fraction) from a mixture.
1922D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry II. 324 The great bulk of crude handled was still stripped in batch stills. 1931Hoffert & Claxton Motor Benzole viii. 226 It is essential that the benzole should be stripped from the wash oil as completely as possible. 1938A. E. Dunstan et al. Sci. of Petroleum II. ii. xxv. 1559/2 The latent heat of vaporization of the components stripped from the oil is supplied by the sensible heat of the oil. 1979Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 3 The aim of this scheme is to ‘strip’ the large amounts of associated gas which were previously flared and then separate LPG and other heavier gas liquids for export.
b. Chem. To extract or recover (a solute) from a solvent previously used in its extraction.
1962Cotton & Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. xxxii. 906 The protactinium can be stripped from the solvent by aqueous acid fluoride solutions. 1980Sci. Amer. Jan. 59/3 Both are recovered by using a complexing agent to dissolve the metal selectively into a dilute solution and then stripping the metal from the solution.
26. Printing. To mount (copy) in the correct position on a sheet for use in making a printing plate; freq. const. in. Also, to make (a flat) thus.
1937R. W. Polk Pract. of Printing (ed. 2) xli. 291 If a number of pictures are to be used together, and the sizes of the originals are not in proper proportion to each other, separate exposures are made for each size, the necessary reductions made, and the resulting negatives are ‘stripped’ together in proper position on the composite negative plate... If the sizes are not in proper proportion, separate negatives must be made and stripped in on the plate. 1948R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures viii. 232 After the negatives or positives of illustrations and type matter have been prepared.., the job must be stripped on a layout so that press plates may be made. Ibid. 233 Positives used for stripping flats for the deep-etch process are stripped on a piece of transparent acetate. 1964R. W. & E. W. Polk Pract. of Printing (ed. 6) xl. 304 (caption) A masking sheet with negatives stripped in. Ibid. 306 Positioning and attaching films on a masking sheet is called stripping a flat. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes v. 142 After the film is developed, the negative is washed and dried. It is then ‘stripped’ or placed in a predetermined position on a special type of paper for the plate maker who will expose the image onto the offset plate. 1975J. Butcher Copy-Editing iv. 39 Combined line and half-tone may be used for a photograph that needs some lettering or a scale; this is usually done by stripping a line negative into a half-tone negative.
IV.
27. a. Comb.: strip bush slang (see quot.); strip cell, a cell in which a prisoner is subjected to sensory or physical deprivation; strip-down, (a) U.S. colloq., a car which has been stripped down and reassembled so as to improve performance; (b) the dismantling or disassembly of an engine, etc. (cf. sense 8 above); strip-jack-naked dial. = beggar-my-neighbour (see beggar v. 3); strip-me-naked slang, gin; strip-poker orig. U.S., a game of poker in which a losing player sheds a garment as a penalty or forfeit; strip-search, a search of a prisoner during the course of which he is stripped naked; also as v. trans.; = skin-search s.v. skin n. 16; strip the willow, a Scottish country dance performed by couples in longways sets.
1865Hotten's Slang Dict. (ed. 2), *Strip-bush, a fellow who steals clothes put out to dry after washing.
1971New Society 1 July 15/1 A *strip-cell. This contains only a mattress on a bare floor. 1973Black Panther 7 July 9/2 If the guards wanted to they could turn on a light in the ceiling, but I was always kept in the dark, and nude. That is part of the deprivation, why the soul breaker is called a strip cell.
1950Sun (Baltimore) 6 Oct. (B ed.) 7/4 Juveniles who have been racing the highways in stepped-up *strip-downs. 1963Times 24 May (London Underground Suppl.) p. xii/5 The trains were withdrawn from service and sent to Acton, where they undergo a comprehensive strip-down. 1969Daily Tel. 18 Feb. 5/5 Repair is in progress. A strip-down survey of the refinery is being undertaken.
1881Oxfordsh. (Suppl.) Gloss., *Strip Jack naked, a game at cards sometimes called ‘Byet (beat) my neighbour out of doors.’
1751Gen. Advertiser 7 Mar. 1/2 (N. & Q. 5th Ser. VII. 69/2) *Strip-me-naked, or Royal Gin for Ever. 1756[see gunpowder 3].
1929M. Lief Hangover i. 9 ‘How about a fast game of *strip-poker?’ she suggested. 1935G. Greene England made Me ii. 86 Two girls playing strip poker. 1961Times 14 June 16/3 There had been a ‘strip-poker’ party that night. 1978D. Williams Treasure up in Smoke xix. 169 ‘He..suggested some kind of poker.’.. ‘Strip poker?’
1947*Strip-search [see runover 1]. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vii. 189 The arrested men were strip-searched and made to await the DI's pleasure. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 3 Oct. 10c/5 A woman sentenced for drunken driving should not be strip-searched. Ibid., Subjected to extreme trauma by a strip-search.
1924Scottish Country Dance Bk. I. 16 *Strip the Willow or Drops of Brandy... Running step is used all through this dance. 1980L. Lewis Private Life of Country House xii. 166 ‘Strip the Willow’, a country dance in which couples in turns came from the ends of two rows to perform some steps in the middle.
b. [Sometimes, f. strip n.3 2.] In various slang or colloq. Combs. in sense 1 i, as strip act, strip bar, strip dancer, strip girl, strip party, strip show, strip song; strip club, an establishment providing entertainment in the form of strip-tease; strip joint [joint n. 14 a] slang = strip club.
1950A. Cooke in Manch. Guardian Weekly 13 July 13/2 The all-American cult of the ‘strip act’. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 728 Today the higher⁓priced girls are often connected with burlesque or work in strip-bars. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 96 One of the South Strand strip bars.
1960Spectator 12 Aug. 236 That strip clubs have been multiplying in London recently is generally known. 1962Ibid. 7 Dec. 883 The strip-club owner who intends to fight..on a campaign against entertainments tax. 1973J. M. White Garden Game 36 The neon lights of the strip-clubs and restaurants.
1946D. Runyon Short Takes 236 There were cut-outs of guys with their arms around hula dancers and around strip dancers. 1961Times 21 Sept. 15/2 The strip-girl loved by a foolish, tiresome but engaging missionary.
1951Sun (Baltimore) 27 June 30/3 Prince Georges County Sheriff Carlton Beall began a crackdown on what he called ‘strip joints’. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 148/4 Gambling rooms, saloons and strip joints. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 95 He now stands gawping incredulously at the strip-joints that jostle each other all along Cortez Avenue.
1959Times 19 June (Queen in Canada Suppl.) p. iv/5 Police are always cracking down on private strip parties. 1972J. Brown Chancer viii. 110 These strip parties—young business blokes—you know.
1967Listener 5 Oct. 437/3 One of the old Windmill strip shows. 1971New Scientist 10 June 641/2 Their dirty raincoats..have been snapped up by strip-show patrons.
1937Hart & Kaufman You can't take it with You iii. 171 She kept singing a strip song while Mrs. Kirby undressed.
Sense 27 in Dict. becomes 28. Add: [I.] [4.] c. To remove the bedclothes and linen from (a bed).
1892Housewifery Jan. 4/2 Where the bed has not been stripped and the windows opened, do so. 1937E. M. Robertson Home Nursing & Hygiene i. 7 To strip a bed if the patient is unable to get up, each cover and blanket should be untucked and then removed separately. 1968B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 11 Jud looked at the humped blankets, then walked across and pulled them back, stripping the bed completely. 1988Sat. Even. Post July/Aug. 72/2 We..stripped the beds and took down the curtains and took off the slipcovers..and put them through the washer.
[III.] 27. Comm. a. To sell off (the assets of a company) for profit: see also asset-stripping s.v. asset n. 4.
1972Observer 8 Oct. 15/1 Slater took only a few months to strip these assets out of Lotery. 1977E. Ambler Send no more Roses xi. 265 Sometimes there were assets to be stripped. Sometimes..a loss position to be parlayed. 1980Forbes (N.Y.) 12 May 54/2 As a final resort, cash-hungry companies may simply have to carve up their balance sheets by stripping assets. 1984Financial Times 13 June 24/8 Some of the North Sea oil-producing assets that had been stripped from the British Gas Corporation.
b. With out. To eliminate (an item) from a statement of accounts for the purposes of illustration or comparison.
1980Fortune 5 May 204/1 When inventory profits are stripped out and depreciation is figured on the basis of replacement costs, the growth comes to only 42 percent in real terms. 1981Times 8 May 27/8 After stripping out property disposals..profits rose by 20 per cent. 1989Investors Chron. 17 Mar. 73/2 Underlying profits dropped from {pstlg}167m to {pstlg}120m if the contribution from Royal Ordnance is stripped out. 1990Independent 7 June 31/2 If everything is stripped out, underlying profit growth comes in at 9 per cent.
c. To divest (a bond) of its interest coupons so that it and they may be sold separately. orig. U.S.
1981Bond Buyer 3 Feb. 1/1 The MAC bonds, stripped of the warrants, were quoted at [etc.]. 1982N.Y. Times 19 Aug. d12/5 Securities that have been stripped of coupons and used to create zero-coupon securities. 1984Canad. Business Aug. 172/1 An investor can buy 20-year Ontario Hydro bonds—stripped of their coupons—at a discounted price of about $8,000 per $100,000.
▪ VI. † strip, v.2 Obs.
Also 5 strype, 6 strippe.
[Proximate origin obscure; f. Teut. root *strī̆p-: see stripe n.3]
1. intr. To move or pass swiftly.
c1400Rowland & O. 560 And other stroke he to hym bere, And Doun by-fore hym it strypes there, his schelde a waye it reuede. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse F 1 b, The swiftest Hound, when he is hallowed, strippes forth. 1616Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii. 119 Th' Eagle..To countries farre remote would bend her flight, And with vnwearied wing strip through the skie. Ibid. ii. v. 905 As the Westerne side shee stript along.
2. trans. To pass or surpass in running, flying, etc.; to pass by in travelling: = outstrip v.1 (recorded from 1580).
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon i. i. 4 Alate we ran the deere, and through the Lawndes Stript with our nagges the loftie frolicke bucks. 1605Drayton Poems Lyr. & Past., Man in Moone H 7 b, She..calls downe the Dragons that her chariot drawe, and..mounteth thereon, in twinkling of an ey stripping the winds. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Honest Man's Fort. i. i, Before he reacht it, he was out of breath, And then the other stript him. c1624Chapman Hymn to Apollo 641 When first, they stript the Maleane Promont'rie: Toucht at Laconias soile, [etc.]. 1774Ann. Reg., Poetry 211 But mark the beauteous Antelope!..he strips the wind, And leaves them lagging, panting, far behind.
▪ VII. strip, v.3|strɪp|
[Cogn. w. stripe n.2; cf. WFlem. strippen to draw (something) between the fingers or the teeth, in order to extract the contents or remove the leaves, etc.; also strip stream of milk from a teat.]
1. a. trans. To extract (the milk from a cow's udder). Now spec. to extract the milk remaining in the udder after the normal milking, esp. by a particular movement of the hand (see quot. 1844).
1610Fletcher Faithf. Sheph. i. ii. B 3 b, More white Then the new milke we strip before day light From the full fraighted bags of our faire flockes. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 357 To Strip; to draw the aftermilkings of cows. 1791W. Bartram Trav. 310 When the milkmaid has taken her share of milk, she looses the calf, who strips the cow. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm. II. 454 Stripping consists of seizing the teat firmly near the root between the face of the thumb and the side of the fore-finger. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. xv, Never were cows that required such ‘stripping,’ or were expected to yield such ‘afterings’ as Black Nell and Daisy that night.
b. strip cup (see quot. 1962).
1941Roadhouse & Henderson Market-Milk Industry iv. 67 (caption) Strip cup used for detecting abnormal milk. The first stream of milk from each teat is milked into the strip cup through the fine mesh screen. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Mar. 265/1 Every cow should be tried, using a strip cup, before putting on the machines. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 37 The routine use of strip-cups in the cowsheds will assist in the prevention of mastitis spreading. 1962J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. & Allied Terminol. 769/1 Strip cup, a small metal cup or vessel with a fine wire strainer or inner liner into which the first streams of milk from each teat are milked from the cow for examination to detect any indication of mastitis infection or any other abnormal condition of the milk or udder. 1975Campbell & Marshall Sci. providing Milk for Man xiv. 337 The California Mastitis Test (CMT) is much more sensitive in detecting inflamed quarters than is the strip cup.
2. To draw between the finger and thumb, through the closed hand, etc. In various technical uses:
a. Catgut-making. (See quot.)
1883R. Haldane Workshop Rec. Ser. ii. 320/1 [In preparing fiddle-strings] the gut..is stripped through a ring..or through a perforated brass thimble, the thumb being pressed upon the gut as it is passed through.
b. Fish-culture. To press out with the hand the ripe roe or milt from (a fish).
1884Day Fishes Gt. Brit. I. p. cix, The mode of spawning or stripping fish..requires practice.
c. Farriery. (See quot.)
1908Animal Management (War Office) 62 ‘Stripping’ the ears, i.e. pulling them gently through the hand from base to apex..should not be neglected.
Add:[2.] d. Angling. To draw in (a line or fish) with the hand. Also absol.
1979Angling July 31/2 Casting a team of three..wet-flies, downwind of a drifting boat and stripping them back in quickly. 1986Trout Fisherman July 63/1 What normally happens is that the trout for some reason comes straight up and straight down and by the time that you have stripped in and then cast, it is on or near the bottom again. 1989N.Y. Times 12 Mar. (Sophisticated Traveler Mag.) 86/2 Often the guide has to tell you where and how far to cast, and when to begin stripping in line.
▪ VIII. strip, v.4|strɪp|
[f. strip n.2]
trans. To cut into strips. Hence ˈstripping vbl. n.3; also attrib.
1885W. L. Carpenter Manuf. Soap & Candles 200 The first operation is to ‘strip’ the stock-soap, i.e. to cut it up into strips or shavings... After stripping, the soap is frequently dried somewhat, and it is then passed through the mill. 1885Harper's Mag. Jan. 279/2 They buy the sides of leather, and cut them into ‘strips’ by means of a long straight knife, moved by a treadle or by steam, known as a ‘stripping machine.’
Add:2. Broadcasting (orig. U.S.). To broadcast (a television series or programme) every day at the same time.
1975[implied in *stripping vbl. n.3 2]. 1977L. Brown N.Y. Times Encycl. Television 416/1 Stations that receive no network service prefer to strip programs, both for their own convenience and for viewers' easy reference. 1980N.Y. Times 2 Oct. c20/4 Because it is ‘stripped’ five nights a week, the slot does not provide an added outlet for independent producers. 1985Broadcast 11 Jan. 22/3 We've already had more than our share of U.S. mini-series being stripped across a week or weekend of course, but now they're doing the same with domestic product. 1989S. T. Eastman et al. Broadcast/Cable Programming (ed. 3) viii. 234 The most cost-efficient series are those that can be stripped (run Monday to Friday or Sunday to Saturday in the same time period). |