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▪ I. stripping, vbl. n.1|ˈstrɪpɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. a. The action of strip v.1
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lxiv. (1495) 182 And that matere chaungyth and enfectith the skynne somtyme wyth scales..and somtyme wyth strippynge and pillynge. a1400–50Wars Alex. (Dubl. MS.) 781 What of stampyng of stedes & strippyng of baners, All demmyd þe dale & þe duste risez. c1440Promp. Parv. 480/1 Stryppynge, or makynge [read nakynge],..denudacio. 1653W. Jenkyn Shock of Corn (1654) 14 He who looks upon himself as possessing nothing in the world, fears not a stripping by death. 1713Addison Guardian No. 109 ⁋2 Having put a seasonable stop to this unaccountable humour of stripping, that was got among our British Ladies. 1845J. Coulter Adv. Pacific vii. 76 As this spiral stripping of the blubber goes on, the body [of the whale] is kept turning. 1847Eliza Gurney Let. 18 Sept., in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys (1895) II. xv. 252 This further stripping has afresh caused me to feel that ‘I am bereaved’, that life will soon contain but very few to bind me to it. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 712 The pia [mater] on stripping is found to adhere to the cerebral cortex. 1952W. H. Kirk Sewell's Dogs & their Management (rev. ed.) iv. 76 Proper trimming or stripping is a long, tedious, and continuous work. 1974R. Rendell Face of Trespass xiv. 134 Mr Greenberg doesn't have a surgery on Saturday afternoons... We're only open for clipping and stripping.
b. In technical senses.
1748Anson's Voy. ii. ii. 135 In the stripping of our fore⁓mast, we were alarmed by discovering it was sprung. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 226 (File Maker) To prepare the files for cutting, is by making the surface to contain the teeth as level as possible; this process is called ‘stripping’. 1853Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 697 Interruptions occurred several times a day by the stripping of the main cylinder. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 54 The ore is got out by a kind of long-wall method called ‘stripping’. 1886A. Watt Electro-Deposition 252 It is usually the practice to remove what silver there may be upon old plated articles by the process termed ‘stripping’. This consists in immersing the article in a hot acid liquid. 1922D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry II. 324 Stripping may be held to mean a complete removal of all light fractions down to those of lubricating value, and represents the initial refining process. 1943Ann. Reg. 1942 364 Saha..suggested that both the stripping of the atoms and their high velocities are due to a nuclear reaction analogous to fission. 1949Melcher & Larrick Printing & Promotion Handbk. 283/2 When two or more photographic negatives are used together to make one printing plate, the process of combining them is known as ‘stripping’. 1955[see desorption]. 1972Physics Bull. Mar. 145/1 After stripping the nitrogen ions..will behave like deuterons or alpha particles in the injection channel into the synchrotron. 1977L. Vályi Atom & Ion Sources iv. 251 An alternative method for the production of multiply charged ions is the stripping of electrons in the interaction of singly charged positive ions. 1980J. R. Walker Graphic Arts Fund. vi. 116/1 (caption) Light table makes good work surface for stripping.
2. concr. Something stripped off or taken off in a thin layer.
1601in Househ. Ord. (1790) 288 He [the yeoman of the Boyling House] hath for his fee the strippinges of beefe. 1835Browning Paracelsus v. 486 And now the air is full of uptorn canes, Light strippings from the fan-trees. 1874Raymond 6th Rep. Mines 315 The layers of gravel passed through by the shafts in reaching the mantas or rich streaks are cast aside as of no value, and the surface of a Mexican placer is covered with heaps of these ‘strippings’. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 245 Stripping, a web of coal worked off all along the face of a stall.
3. attrib. (chiefly technical), as stripping-acid, stripping agent, stripping-bath, stripping bench, stripping cement, stripping column, stripping desk, stripping foil, stripping-liquid, stripping-machine, stripping operation, stripping-solution, stripping still. Also stripping-bill(e), a bladed implement or bill used in besom-making; stripping-coat, a coating of solvent used on the edges of double waterproof fabric in order to separate them for making a seam; stripping-film, a photographic ‘plate’ having a film which may be separated from its support after exposure; stripping-knife, (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) a knife used in the stripping of wallpaper or paint from surfaces; † stripping law, the ‘art’ of fleecing prisoners as practised by jailers (see quots.).
1905Electro-plating (ed. P. N. Hasluck) 141 The *stripping acid is composed of sulphuric acid, nitric acid, and water.
1958M. G. Larian Fund. Chem. Engin. Operations xiii. 495 In desorption dissolved gases are removed from a liquid by contacting the liquid with a suitable gas (the desorbing or *stripping agent), or a volatile liquid is separated from a relatively nonvolatile solvent.
1886A. Watt Electro-Deposition 252 A *stripping-bath [for silver] is first made by pouring a sufficient quantity of strong oil of vitriol into a suitable stoneware vessel... To this must be added a small quantity of either nitrate of potash, or nitrate of soda.
1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset v. 51 A *stripping bench, layout and lining tables are essential... The former provides the illuminated working surface on which the various images can be positioned.
1968J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts v. 97 The cuttings are prepared for use with chopping and *stripping-billes for the coarse and finer work. 1974P. W. Blandford Country Craft Tools ii. 38 The besom broom maker called his general-purpose tool a ‘chopping bill’ and had a lighter one with more curve to the point called ‘stripping bill’.
1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset v. 50 With face-up stripping a *stripping cement is first applied to the base support.
1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 7/2 Such coatings are specially designated ‘*stripping-coats’.
1930H. S. Bell Amer. Petroleum Refining (ed. 2) xii. 222 If withdrawn as a finished product, the light ends must be removed and this is usually accomplished in a separate small *stripping column.
1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset v. 55 (caption) Bench-type illuminated *stripping desk.
1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 395 *Stripping films.
1972Physics Bull. Mar. 144/3 An aluminium *stripping foil of density 40 µg cm-2 was therefore used at the high energy end of the Linac to convert the particles to 14N7+.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Stripping-knife, a tool for removing the blades of sorghum from the stalks, previous to grinding. 1927W. Deeping Kitty xx. 254, I could lend you a plank and a couple of step-ladders, and a stripping-knife. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 210/1 A paper-hanger's stripping knife, which is a flat, fairly flexible, steel-bladed knife.
1592Greene Disput. Conny Catchers D 1, The *stripping Lawe, wherein I will lay open the lewde abuses of sundry Iaylors in England. 1592― Def. Conny Catching Wks. (Grosart) XI. 104 The stripping Law..is the abuse offered by the keepers of Newgate to poore prisoners.
1846Mech. Mag. XLV. 260/2 Silversmiths remove silver from copper by immersing the plated article in *stripping liquid, made of eight parts sulphuric acid and one part nitrate of potash. 1898*Stripping machine [see strip v.1 19].
1948R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures viii. 232 (heading) The *stripping operation. 1980J. R. Walker Graphic Arts Fund. vi. 116/2 (caption) Stripping operations require sharp knives, scissors and brushes for opaquing pinholes.
1886A. Watt Electro-Deposition 253 A Cold *Stripping Solution,..is made by [etc.].
1931Hoffert & Claxton Motor Benzole viii. 225 The function of a modern *stripping still is to remove the remaining benzole from the hot oil leaving the preheater.
▪ II. stripping, vbl. n.2|ˈstrɪpɪŋ|
[f. strip v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of strip v.3
1895F. M. Halford Making a Fishery 194 Finding that she [the female fish] was not quite ripe for stripping he turned her on to a shallow. 189919th Cent. Sept. 399 The ‘stripping’ of the shad by the hatchery officials had only terminated the previous week.
b. concr. (pl.) = stroking vbl. n. 2.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 97 Stripings, the last part of a cow's milk. 1808J. C. Curwen Hints Feeding Stock 145, I was doubtful of the accuracy of my own dairy, which stated a pound of butter to eight quarts of strippings. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 459 That which comes last, the afterings or strippings, as it is commonly called, is much the richer part of new milk.
c. Comb.: stripping cow, a cow which is going dry and requires to be ‘stripped’ in milking.
1894Times 16 Apr. 4/4 Irish store cattle, consisting chiefly of heifers and stripping cows, continue to be imported.
▪ III. stripping vbl. n.3
see strip v.4
1. The action of strip v.4 1. Also attrib.
1885W. L. Carpenter Manuf. Soap 200 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’.
2. The broadcasting of a serial programme daily at the same time. orig. U.S.
1975Broadcasting 15 Sept. 52/2 It's a day-time series..now sold to over 40 television stations for stripping five days a week. 1987Daily Tel. 29 July 12/6 ‘Stripping’ is a useful way of trying to make sure that viewers stay with us.
▪ IV. stripping, ppl. a.|ˈstrɪpɪŋ|
[f. strip v.1 + -ing2.]
That strips, in senses of the verb.
1681Otway Soldier's Fort. i. i. (1683) 6 Be sure that they be lew'd, drunken, stripping Whores. 1713Addison Guardian No. 118 ⁋3 At a late meeting of the stripping Ladies,..it was resolved for the future to lay the modesty-piece wholly aside. 1809Mary Titherington Diary in Mem. 91 In the course of Christian experience we pass through such stripping times. 1913Masefield in Engl. Rev. Dec. 1 Till with a stripping crash the tree goes down. |