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stripn.1

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/
Forms: 1500s stripe, stryppe, strepe, 1600s– strip.
Etymology: < Anglo French estrepe, verbal noun < estreper estrepe v.
Law. Now only U.S.
= estrepement n.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal acts of tenant
waste1414
estrepement1503
strip1516
1516 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 596/2 Jone my wyffe schalle make no stryppe ner waste in fellyng of tymbyr.
15.. Modus tenendi 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.
1559 T. Phaer Boke of Presidentes (new ed.) 30 N...shall haue..necessarie firebote, hedge bote [etc.]...duryng the sayd term, without stripe or wast.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 294 In that day, the Lord shall by the hand of the Assyrians..make utter strip, & waste of Judah.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 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.
1682 tr. Charter of Cinque Ports 138 Strip or Estrepement is a Writ for taking Lands from him that strips and spoils them.
1701 in 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.].
1891 Cent. Dict. Strip, destruction of fences, timber, etc.; waste. (U.S.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stripn.2

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/
Forms: Also 1500s strippe, stryppe, 1600s stripp.
Etymology: < or cognate with Middle Low German strippe strap, thong of a whiplash, purse-string, etc., perhaps < Germanic root *strῑp- : see stripe n.3The Middle Low German strippe , however, may be for *strüppe cognate with strop n.1; if so, sense 3 may perhaps be an adoption of an unrecorded continental use: compare Dutch strop collar, stock. N.E.D. includes a sense (1b) ‘collect. as a material’, based on an early transcription of the following quot.:1801 J. Austen Let. 6 May (1995) 83 My Mother has ordered a new Bonnet, & so have I;—both white chip, trimmed with white ribbon.
1.
a. A narrow piece (primarily of textile material, paper, or the like; hence gen.) of approximately uniform breadth. pilaster strip (Architecture): see pilaster n.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece
latchetc1350
labelc1425
strip1459
slipea1552
slip1555
slippet1657
fillet1663
strappet1665
riband1766
streamer1810
strip1831
striplet1839
ribbon1847
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > narrow > tape > collectively
strip1459
tape1537
tapery1657
1459 Inventory in Paston Lett. I. 478 Item, j pece of blak kersey with rosys... Item, ij. stripis of the same sute.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. x Strippes of black Veluet, euery strip set with a scalop shell.
1697 H. Wanley in Bodleian Q. Rec. (1915) 1 107 That a little strip of Parchment be pasted to each Tract, with its number written upon it.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Strip, a small piece of Cloth.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 74 The glare of an egg..spread upon strips of paper.
1811 in 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.
1847 G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke III. xiv. 284 The following is in Lord Hardwicke's handwriting, on a small strip of paper.
1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xviii No carpet, except little strips by the bed.
1883 W. H. Gaskell in Jrnl. Physiol. 4 51 A strip of muscular tissue is cut from the apex of the ventricle.
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 118 A strip of very fine muslin.
b. A long narrow tract of territory, of land, wood, etc.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip
sideling1250
tail1472
strake1503
vein1555
slip1591
neckland1598
slang1610
spang1610
screed1615
gore1650
spong1650
belt1725
slinget1790
stripe1801
strip1816
wedge1867
ribbon1923
1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) vi. 206 The banks [of the river here] have in some places low strips of soil and sand.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands 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.
1842 J. Aiton Domest. 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.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton vi. 74 This road is bordered by a strip of common.
1880 J. Ruskin On Old Road (1885) II. 3 A narrow strip of untilled field.
c. A narrow piece of board, metal plate, etc.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece
latchetc1350
labelc1425
strip1459
slipea1552
slip1555
slippet1657
fillet1663
strappet1665
riband1766
streamer1810
strip1831
striplet1839
ribbon1847
1831 D. Brewster Treat. 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.
1860 J. 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.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2430/2 Strip,..a narrow piece of board nailed over a crack or joint between planks.
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 41 Strips of wood about 2½ in. wide by 1 in. thick.
d. A narrow portion of a surface, bounded by parallel lines.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > of a surface
strip1882
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 185 To find the resistance of this area, we may consider it as broken up into..an indefinitely great number of equipotential strips.
1892 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1897) XIII. 233 The skew surface is thus composed of rigid strips or elements, each included between two consecutive lines.
e. A sequence of small drawings telling a comic or serial story in a newspaper, etc. Frequently as comic strip. Also transferred. Originally U.S.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > comic or cartoon
drollery1600
comic cut1831
cartoon1843
comic strip1913
panel1920
strip1920
frame1932
strip cartoon1936
manhwa1988
1920 L. N. Flint Editorial x. 229 In the paper..the week-day issues contain a preponderance of syndicate features—‘comics’, ‘strips’..and continued stories.
1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 47 The comic strips in the papers.
1928 Daily 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.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 537 Such wear a frillick for my comic strip, Mons Meg's Monthly, comes out aich Fanagan's Weck.
1943 D. Powell Time to be Born (new ed.) iv. 95 She had a curious impression of being in a Buck Rogers strip..and gazing into another planet.
1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles ii. 38 Mild-looking middle class boys Who read the comic strips.
1967 Listener 21 Dec. 821/3 This feedback from strip to pop and back into strip again is very noticeable.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 7 b/6 Why, you might wonder, would Universal and NBC risk an expensive space comic strip like ‘Buck Rogers’?
f. = airstrip n. at air n.1 Compounds 2. Also figurative. See also fighter strip n. at fighter n. Compounds 1, landing strip n. at landing n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > air-strip
landing area1910
airstrip1911
landing strip1930
strip1936
1936 W. H. McCormick Mod. Bk. Aeroplanes xi. 106 The strip extends across the landing-ground.
1944 Yank 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?
1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 64 Greek celature as a take-off strip for the medieval manuscript culture.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 756/2 Several flying strips are also in use by light aircraft [in Nigeria].
g. A street noted for its night-clubs, bars, gambling houses, etc. Frequently with definite article and capital initial (originally with reference to Sunset Strip in Hollywood: see quot. 1974). slang (chiefly North American).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings
rowc1248
street of houses (also shops)1577
town-row1610
terrace1769
mews1805
strip1939
1939 California: Guide to Golden State (Federal Writers' Project) 193 Further west on Sunset Boulevard..is a section popularly known as ‘the Strip’.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vii. 124 The wind sweeping down the Strip from the sea.
1957 Maclean's 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.
1967 W. Murray Sweet Ride vi. 89 The Place is located in the heart of the Strip. It..had once catered to a touristy clientele.
1968 Globe & 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.
1971 Guardian 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.
1974 Encycl. 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’.
1976 Publishers Weekly 21 June 62/2 Rush Street was a nightlife strip, virtually deserted during the day.
1978 S. 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’.
h. to tear (someone) off a strip, to tear a strip off (someone) and variants: to upbraid or reprimand (someone); to lose a strip, to have a strip torn off, to be reprimanded or receive a dressing-down. colloquial (originally R.A.F. slang).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > be rebuked or scolded
to hear of it1598
to get on (also upon) the finger ends1693
to get one's lug in one's loof1744
to get wrong1803
to catch or get Jesse1839
to come in for it1841
to get hell1851
to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916
to have a strip torn off1940
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
1940 N. 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.
1942 T. 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.
1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture iv. 71 Nicholls used to tear tremendous strips off Trayhorn.
1957 L. P. Hartley Hireling 42 If my wife saw me wearing one, she would tear me off a strip.
a1963 J. Lusby in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 225 It's all right... I've just lost a strip, too.
1967 Listener 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.
i. A track used for motor-racing. See also drag strip at drag n. 1f. U.S.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track
autodrome1901
motordrome1908
speedway1925
strip1941
bullring1970
1941 Sun (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.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Oct. 16/5 The racing strip has been brought around slowly to peak form.
1977 Custom 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.
j. = strip light n. at Compounds 2 (b), sense strip-cropping n. (a) at Compounds 2 below.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > strip light
strip light1920
strip1970
1970 ‘R. Crawford’ Kiss Boss Goodbye ii. iii. 68 The basement was..warmed by wall-heaters and lit by softpearl strips.
1981 I. McEwan Comfort of Strangers x. 133 The room was small, windowless and heavily perfumed. It was lit by a fluorescent strip.
k. Cricket. The narrow band of ground lying between the wickets.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > wicket
wicket1862
pitch1871
cricket pitch1876
strip1976
track1976
1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 30 None of England's fast bowlers had been particularly menacing during the first Test on a typically sluggish Edgbaston strip.
1977 Sunday 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. Obsolete. rare.Cf. the modern application in quot. 1860 at sense 1c, and in strip-armour.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > suit of armour > other pieces
jeryne?a1400
strip?a1513
waist-piece1870
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Bostaris, braggaris and barganeris..All 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. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > clothing for neck and other parts > neck and chest
patlet?a1505
partlet1515
strip1598
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. iv. 31 When a plum'd Fanne may shade thy chalked face, And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 44 Tyr'd with pin'd Ruffes, and Fans, and partlet-strips And Buskes, and Verdingales about their hips.
1642 in 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.].
1658 J. Smith in J. Mennes Wit Restor'd 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.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > cast metal > in form of pigs > pig, ingot, or bar > prepared for rolling
slab1863
strip1876
1876 Encycl. 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.
1879 C. Hibbs in Cassell's Techn. Educator 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.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > strip of iron
rand1831
strip1887
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other forms of iron
faggot ironc1503
sheaf-iron1572
merchant's irona1650
use1783
merchant iron1784
strap iron1833
angle1834
strip1887
1887 Daily News 16 May 2/3 Bedstead strip varies from £5 to £7 per ton..and gas strip £4 17s 6d to £5.
1893 Daily News 5 June 2/4 Tube strip is £5 10s to £5 15s; the competition in thin strip and hoop iron..continues keen... Hoops and thin strips are being offered..at £6. Local makers ask £6 5s for steel strip.
1901 L. M. Waterhouse Conduit Wiring 8 The Conduits are made from selected steel strip.
5. Mining. (See quot. 1875.)
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2430/2 Strip,..(Mining) an inclined trough in which ores are separated by being disturbed while covered by a stream of water descending the strip.
6. colloquial. 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
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > other
wedding-suit1594
Highland dress1703
ihram1704
Quaker dress1718
cap and gown1853
montuno1941
silks1946
hanbok1952
montuna1955
samfu1955
strip1974
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > player > clothing
strip1974
1974 Evening News (Edinb.) 8 Oct. 16/3 Postal United, the East of Scotland League club, had their strip stolen from a car in the Hailesland Park area.
1977 Shoot 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.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1b.)
strip-holder n.
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1898 F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 64 Very often the office-holders were strip-holders or at any rate belonged to families which had held strips.
strip-holding n.
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1901 Month Dec. 603 The strip-holding of arable land which was so universal in England.
strip-owner n.
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1898 F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 6 The strip-owners are for the more part colleges.
b. (In sense 1e.)
strip advertisement n.
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1938 N. Marsh Artists in Crime iii. 24 You're not doing a ‘before and after’, like a strip advertisement.
strip form n.
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1949 Radio Times 15 July 17/2 Those inter-planetary adventures we find, in strip form, in almost every comic.
strip heroine n.
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1967 Listener 21 Dec. 822/1 The idea of a strip-heroine for middle-aged onanists is surely a gloomy one.
c. (In sense 1f.)
strip landing ground n.
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1938 Flight 21 July 60/1 It is in fact a strip landing ground with natural wind buffers.
d. (In sense 4a.)
strip-caster n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > roller > preparer for rolling
strip-caster1879
1879 C. Hibbs in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 413/1 The ‘strip-caster’ as he is termed.
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 Stripcaster.—Wanted, Steady Man, used to casting Brass for rolling.
C2.
strip architecture n. U.S. the types of building or other features characteristic of strip development.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles
transition1730
pasticcio1750
symmetrophobia1809
rococo1835
flamboyantism1846
collegiate Gothic1851
vernacular architecture1857
Neo-Grec1867
modernism1879
wedding-cake1879
Queen Anne1883
Colonial Revival1889
Chicago school1893
Dutch colonial1894
English colonial1894
monumentalism1897
vernacular1910
international style1911
Churrigueresque1913
postmodernism1914
prairie style1914
rationalism1918
lavatory style1919
functionalism1924
Mudéjar1927
façadism1933
open plan1938
Wrenaissance1942
pseudo1945
brutalism1953
open planning1958
neo-Liberty1959
Queen Annery1966
Jugendstil1967
moderne1968
strip architecture1976
high-tech1978
1976 New 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.
strip-armour n. Historical armour for the arms and legs, showing broad raised strips (see sense 1c) alternating with sunken bands.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun]
strip-armour1860
strip-work1860
limb-guard1869
1860 J. Hewitt Arms & Arm. II. 121 The manner of forming this strip-armour is very exactly described.
strip-built adj. rare that has been subjected to strip or ribbon development.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [adjective] > types of planning or development
mononucleated1930
strip-built1936
polynucleated1938
greenfield1940
scattered-site1956
inclusionary1971
scatter-site1972
1936 C. Day Lewis Noah & Waters 15 Strip-built roads that stray Out like suckers to drain the country.
strip cartoon n. a sequence of cartoons (sense 2) telling a (comic) story; frequently attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > comic or cartoon
drollery1600
comic cut1831
cartoon1843
comic strip1913
panel1920
strip1920
frame1932
strip cartoon1936
manhwa1988
1936 Discovery 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.
1950 Times 2 Mar. 6/5 Separate or detachable sections or supplements comprised wholly or mainly of strip cartoons.
1967 E. 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.
1974 Listener 24 Jan. 118/1 Under the strip-cartoon image lies a message that is often puritanical.
strip cartoonist n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > drawer or designer > cartoonist
cartoonist1880
strip cartoonist1953
1953 New Internat. Yearbk. 1952 47/1 J. C. Bancks, Australia's most popular strip-cartoonist, was creator of Ginger Meggs.
stripchart n. (also strip chart) a long roll of (usually 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; usually attributive, designating recorders using such rolls.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > devices for > specific > part of
stylus1879
stripchart1950
1950 Instruments XXIII. 260/3 (advt.) New ‘Pneumatic Capacilog’ air-operated strip-chart recorder is completely self-contained.
1966 N.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.
1978 Nature 12 Oct. 520/2 The outputs are recorded on stripchart recorders, allowing a maximum resolution of 100 ms.
strip-cropping n. (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 n. at contour n. Compounds); (b) the practice of growing crops in strips (cf. strip farming n. below).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > other systems of growing crops
water farming1811
catch-cropping1851
sharecropping1877
intercropping1898
intertillage1912
strip-cropping1936
alley farming1984
1936 Sun (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.
1949 Martin & Leonard Princ. Field Crop Production v. 125 Strip cropping, now widely advocated, has been practiced for generations in sections of Pennsylvania.
1976 S. 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.
strip-cultivation n. (a) = strip farming n. below; (b) Archaeology the practice of using strip lynchets in farming.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
1932 T. D. Kendrick & C. F. C. Hawkes Archaeol. Eng. & 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.
1974 C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. iii. 28 These terrace-like features [sc. strip lynchets] on hillsides are the remains of medieval strip cultivation.
strip development n. U.S. = ribbon development n. at ribbon n. Compounds 3.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > types of planning or development
urban regeneration1850
spotting1856
Haussmannization1865
peacocking1892
ribbon development1925
ribbon building1926
urban renewal1938
infilling1943
strip development1955
arcology1969
1955 Sun (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.
1980 Blair & 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.
strip-farm v. U.S. (transitive) to cultivate (land) in strips along the contours of a hill, etc., to prevent soil erosion (cf. strip-cropping n. (a) above).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > by specific system
strip-farm1943
swidden1978
1943 Sun (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.
strip farming n. Historical a system of land cultivation in which the land was divided up into long narrow strips and allocated to different peasant-farmers.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
1913 A. 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.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 20 Pre-Saxon strip farming has been recognized at sites in Wessex..and in Cumberland, Northumberland and South Scotland.
strip-graze v. (transitive) to graze (land or livestock) in this way.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > management of pasture > use as pasture [verb (transitive)] > in spec way
ranch1901
strip-graze1960
paddock-graze1969
1960 Farmer & 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.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 79/1 The kale is no longer strip-grazed.
1971 Power Farming Mar. 29/1 It was particularly useful for direct-drilling kale, which could then be strip grazed.
1976 Burnham-on-Sea Gaz. 20 Apr. 22/3 Although being..strip grazed on a paddock system..the herd has shown that it can milk well.
strip-grazed adj.
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1960 Farmer & 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.
strip-grazing n. Agriculture a system of farm management in which strips of land are alternately grazed and kept empty; rotational grazing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > management of pasture > [noun]
winter-haining1667
haining1733
strip-grazing1955
paddock grazing1960
1955 Times 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.
1975 Country 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.
strip light n. (a) Theatre 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 usually in the form of a tubular fluorescent lamp, for providing a continuous line of light; also as v. transitive.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > strip light
strip light1920
strip1970
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [verb (transitive)] > illuminate with specific types of electric light
searchlight1900
spotlight1913
strip light1920
flood-light1923
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > stage lights
footlight1776
limelight1826
float1829
spotlight1875
ground-row1881
lime1892
baby spot1910
amber1913
spot1920
strip light1920
perch1933
follow spot1937
Mickey Mouse1937
pin spot1947
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xviii. 221 Sending to Minneapolis for..a strip light.
1927 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 224 160 The manometer is illuminated by a ‘strip light’.
1963 Parker & 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.
1972 P. Lively Driftway i. 1 Big strip lights on the ceiling reached away almost as far as you could see.
strip-lighted adj.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [adjective] > lit by a striplight
strip-lit1960
strip-lighted1981
1981 ‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous xx. 109 A corridor flanked with strip-lighted offices.
strip-lighting n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > strip light > illumination by
strip-lighting1926
1926 Brit. Standard Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (Brit. Engin. Standards 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.
1934 S. Gold Neon xxii. 61 The question of strip~lighting the building over the entire front is usually entertained only by cinemas.
1934 S. Gold Neon xxii. 61 A combination of colours in strip-lighting gives a charming effect to an otherwise straightforward display.
1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy iv. 39 The entrance hall..was brightly lit by indirect strip-lighting set into the ceiling.
strip line n.
stripline n. a microstrip n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > radio wave > microwave > [noun] > transmission line
microstrip1952
stripline1952
1952 Proc. IRE 40 1658/2 In the case of strip lines, the line conductor is a thin narrow ribbon of metal either cut from sheet or deposited.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 58/2 The military believes recent advances in stripline versions of Butler matrixes..can produce faster memory units.
1974 Physics Bull. Apr. 153/3 The copper conductors..are suitable for high resolution stripline and ground plane applications.
strip-lit adj. = strip-lighted adj. participial adjective above.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [adjective] > lit by a striplight
strip-lit1960
strip-lighted1981
1960 Guardian 14 Apr. 9/3 Illuminated..by..strip-lit shelves.
1973 M. 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.
strip-loin n. U.S. a particular cut of the loin of beef.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts
tild1342
ox foota1398
oxtaila1425
neat's foot?c1450
beef-flick1462
sticking piece1469
ox-tonguea1475
aitch-bone1486
fore-crop?1523
sirloin1525
mouse-piece1530
ox-cheek1592
neat's tongue1600
clod1601
sticking place1601
skink1631
neck beef1640
round1660
ox-heart1677
runner1688
sticking draught1688
brisket-beef1697
griskin1699
sey1719
chuck1723
shin1736
gravy beef1747
baron of beef1755
prime rib1759
rump and dozen1778
mouse buttock1818
slifta1825
nine holes1825
spauld-piece1828
trembling-piece1833
shoulder-lyar1844
butt1845
plate1854
plate-rand1854
undercut1859
silver-side1861
bed1864
wing rib1883
roll1884
strip-loin1884
hind1892
topside1896
rib-eye1926
buttock meat1966
onglet1982
1884 Harper's Mag. July 299/1 Tenderloins, striploins, sirloins.
strip-lynchet n. Archaeology a horizontal terrace used for cultivation; a long, narrow lynchet (see lynchet n. 2b).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > terrace
lynchet1796
cultivation terrace1863
cultivation-bank1913
strip-lynchet1929
1928 Antiquity II. 172 Their..observations..of the..long-strip lynchets of Saxon and medieval times.]
1929 Antiquity III. 174 The strip lynchets..on sloping ground, are made stable..by the facing of masonry.
1975 J. 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.
1983 Out 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.
strip map n. a long narrow map, showing the course of a line of road, and the places adjacent.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map
mappa mundia1387
mappemondea1393
table1610
Mercator's chart1645
Peutingerian tablea1657
Mercator1694
hemisphere1706
Peutinger1731
road map1741
geological map1798
route map1816
ordnance map1828
outline map1836
contour map1862
index map1869
hypsographical map1881
soil map1898
wheel-map1899
strip map1903
distribution map1947
worm's-eye map1964
topo1970
1903 List 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.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 10/2 The Strip or Motor-Route Maps.
strip mill n. Metallurgy a rolling mill specially designed for the production of metal strip.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > rolling equipment
rolling mill1616
merchant train1861
merchant mill1867
merchant rolls1875
pilger mill1902
strip mill1910
reeler1923
1910 H. 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.
1945 Times 26 Feb. 5/7 The strip mill for light sheet and tin plate, the continuous billet mill..[etc.] all belong to this type.
1980 Times 19 Feb. 2/5 Wide sheet steel from the BSC's strip mills..is widely used in the manufacture of domestic ‘white goods’.
strip mine n. U.S. a mine worked by strip-mining; also as v. transitive, to obtain or exploit by strip-mining.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > by specific method
opencast1764
hydraulic1868
strip mine1934
society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation
stream-work1586
opencast?a1650
lavatory1712
lavadero1717
coffin1778
whole working1842
open cut1848
dry- or wet-diggings1849
river diggings1850
placer digging1851
placer working1867
drift mine1882
strip mine1934
1934 Coal Age Oct. 376/3 The spread of trailer operation at Southwestern strip mines reflects a number of advantages.
1976 Billings (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.
1978 Peace 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.
strip-mined adj.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > mined > by specific method
strip-mined1936
1936 Coal Age Oct. 415/1 Strip-mined coal, under early production conditions,..generally sold at prices substantially under those for deepmined coal.
1980 Sci. 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.
strip-miner n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > miner using specific method
washer1531
streamer1619
shoader1882
outcropper1926
strip-miner1946
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Nov. 4/5 Mark McCauley, Davis (W. Va.) strip miner convicted of first degree murder..was sentenced to be hanged.
1977 Economist 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.
strip mining 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.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific types of mining
shoading1778
nuggeting1852
placer mining1852
reefing1859
hydraulic mining1873
stripping1874
drift mining1877
gouging1877
hydraulicking1880
open-working1881
strip mining1935
horizon mining1947
roadheading1969
1935 Coal 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.
1949 Hansard 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.
1949 Hansard Commons 19 May 706 There were..technicians in the country..familiar with American strip-mining methods.
1970 New Scientist 21 May 364/2 Nuclear explosions are also planned for strip-mining large deposits of non-ferrous metals in the northern territories.
1977 Economist 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.
strip packaging n. 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.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > packing > specific
sacking1569
bagging1711
baling1762
woolpacking1875
blister packaging1954
vacuum packaging1954
skin packaging1957
crating1963
strip packaging1969
blister-packing1976
1969 L. 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.
1975 C. F. Ross Packaging of Pharmaceuticals i. 4 Sachets, filled automatically on suitable strip-packaging machines.
strip park n. originally U.S. a long, narrow park developed alongside a road, canal, etc. (cf. strip development n. above).
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > large ornamental grounds > public park
parka1635
lungs of London1808
public park1822
parklet1854
people's park1855
strip park1938
1938 Sun (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.
1972 Times 7 June 4/3 A number of smaller strip-parks, which people could walk to..would be..useful.
strip printer n. a photocomposing device which prints characters on a strip of paper or film; also, any device which prints on a narrow roll of paper.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > printer on paper strips or film
strip printer1962
1962 Amer. Lithographer Apr. 90/3 An automatically-timed exposure light has been added to the Strip Printer Photo Composing Machine Model 299.
1965 R. 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.
1976 Times 8 June 10/5 By adding a simple keyboard and strip printer to a standard telephone, the telephone terminal could..interact with a computer.
strip steak n. U.S. (see quot. 1962) (cf. strip-loin n.).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet
beef-steak1711
entrecôte1840
filet de bœuf1841
porterhouse steak1842
porterhouse1854
bifteck1861
fillet steak1877
tournedos1877
pope's eye1885
filet mignon1906
minute steak1910
T-bone1916
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
strip steak1962
shell steak1968
hanger steak1988
1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 769/2 Strip steak, the steak cut from the loin strip of a beef carcass.
1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 111/3 His guitar style is taut and as lean as a strip steak.
strip system n. = strip farming n. above.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
1954 J. Keith Fifty Years Farming xi. 125 Over a great part of Britain there developed the common-field and strip system.
1965 R. Whitlock Short Hist. Farming in Brit. i. 20 In conjunction with the pattern determined by the type of plough, arose the Saxon strip system of fields.
strip ticket n. a ticket for a journey by a public conveyance, printed with a number of similar tickets on a strip of paper.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > ticket for a public conveyance > printed on a strip
strip ticket1908
1908 Daily 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.
1909 Daily Chron. 10 July 4/6 Our London tube strip-tickets.
strip-work n. (a) Architecture = strapwork n. at strap n. Compounds 2; (b) = strip-armour n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun]
strip-armour1860
strip-work1860
limb-guard1869
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > strapwork, etc.
golose1663
strapwork1854
guilloche1857
strip-work1860
1860 J. Hewitt Arms & Arm. II. 121 In both these sculptures the strip-work is found on the arms and legs.
1893 Reliquary Jan. 16 The third stage has a large window in the south wall; this has decorated strip-work around it.
strip-wound adj. wound with strips, esp. of metal.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > wrapped > with something wound round
upwound1590
strip-wound1907
1907 Hobart & Ellis Armature Construction xi. 265 Windings for a strip-wound barrel type of armature.
1962 Times 26 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. vii/2 (advt.) Hydraulic pressure cylinders in steel, stripwound, etc.

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a. With definite article and (usually) capital initial, denoting a particular tract of territory, usually the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma or the Gaza Strip.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun]
endc893
shirec893
estrec1275
sidec1325
bounds1340
provincea1382
partc1400
landmark1550
tract1553
canton1601
neighbourhood1652
district1712
section1785
circumscription1831
location1833
block1840
strip1873
1873 Winfield (Kansas) Courier 22 May 2/3 One Henry House, residing on the strip, about five miles south of this place.
1926 C. 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.
1945 M. 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.
1968 Observer 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.
1977 Times 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.
b. Philately. A row of three or more unseparated postage stamps joined horizontally or vertically.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > row of
strip1911
1911 F. 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.
1934 S. Phillips Beginner's Bk. Stamp Collecting xix. 221 A horizontal strip is understood if the word ‘strip’ is used alone.
1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps iii. 44 1968 was even quieter. Only four sets, no strange se-tenant strips or funny business.
1982 J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 114 The stamps were issued in sheets of 60, arranged in ten strips of six.
c. Broadcasting (originally U.S.). A period of scheduled programming that occurs at the same time each day (usually weekday), esp. one with a special theme or particular type of viewing audience; hence, the material presented during this period.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > broadcast of a serial programme
strip1969
stripping1975
1969–70 Jrnl. 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.
1977 Washington Post 22 Feb. d10/1 The totals included..five-day-a-week strip syndications of old series like ‘Marcus Welby, M.D.’
1984 Atlantic Aug. 34/2 If a show is a hit,..it is likely to become a Monday-through-Friday ‘strip’.
d. A commercial area along a road leading into a town or city, lined with a variety of small businesses. Frequently attributive. North American and Australian.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shopping centre, precinct, etc. > commercial area with variety of businesses
street1555
pantechnicon1842
shopping strip1935
strip1976
1976 Business Week 27 Dec. 136/2 ‘Neighborhood’ shopping centers—strips with a supermarket on one end and a chain drugstore on the other.
1977 Fortune 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.
1982 Sunday 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.
1984 Chain 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.
1989 Sun (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.

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strip city n. a metropolitan complex consisting of two or more large cities linked by lines of continuous urban development.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > area composed of two or more cities
metroplex1956
strip city1968
1968 J. 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.
1986 New 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.

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strip mall n. originally U.S. a (frequently suburban) shopping centre consisting of a row or group of (usually adjoining) shops, restaurants, etc., typically facing a shared parking lot.
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1977 Bucks Country (Pa.) Courier Times 10 July a8/2 Lincoln Plaza would have been better off as a strip mall rather than an enclosed mall.
1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Dec. e1 A local strip mall offers a convenience store, beauty salon and banking.
1997 L. 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.
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stripn.3

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/
Etymology: < strip v.1
1. plural. Tobacco-leaf with the stalk and midrib removed. Also strip-leaf.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco leaf > type of
wrapper leaf1688
filling1812
strips1844
stript1881
wrap tobacco1888
1844 Rep. 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.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 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.
1904 Daily Chron. 6 May 6/3 His whole imports in March were 133 hogsheads of ‘strips’ and nineteen hogsheads of leaf tobacco.
2. colloquial (originally U.S.). An act or the practice of removing one's clothes or of striptease. See also strip v.1 Compounds 1b.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease
girl show1841
strip1928
teaser1929
strip-tease1936
strip-teasing1937
ecdysiasm1947
full monty1997
1928 Variety 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.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues v. 64 He kept on doing this slow elaborate strip.
1966 Guardian 9 July 8/3 Perhaps ten [clubs] provide regular striptease. Up to ten provide strip occasionally.
1971 ‘R. Petrie’ Thorne in Flesh vi. 86 Dahlia does a strip... I auction the things she takes off.

Draft additions 1993

3. U.S. Commerce. In full strip bond: a fixed-interest bond of which the principal and interest coupons are sold separately to investors. Cf. strip v.1 Additions c.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond
government securities1707
Sword-blade bond1707
long bond1720
government paper1774
indent1788
premium bond1820
active1835
preference bond1848
investment bond1853
mortgage bond1853
revenue bond1853
municipal bond1858
treasury-bond1858
sices1867
property bond1869
government1870
priority bond1884
municipal1888
income bonds1889
yearling1889
war baby1901
Liberty Bond1917
Liberty Loan1917
victory bond1917
corporate1922
performance bond1938
convertible1957
Eurobond1966
Euroconvertible1968
managed bond1972
muni1973
granny bond1976
bulldog bond1980
Euro1981
granny1981
strip1982
zero1982
1982 Bond 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.
1987 Financial Rev. 15 Oct. 10/1 Conversations are peppered with an arcane vocabulary... Strips, butterflies and spreads.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stripn.4

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/, Scottish English /strɪp/
Etymology: Probably a back-formation < stript, variant of striped adj.
Scottish.
a. = stripe n.3In 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.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > stripe
rayc1330
strake1398
list1496
spraing1513
vein1539
guard1579
stripe1626
striping1677
strip1789
wale1891
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 80 The strips or streaks lie all of them exactly parallel to one another, and exactly parallel to the bed of the stone.
1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet xiv. 304 They wont be long in having sergeant's strips on their arms.
1914 Brit. Mus.: Return 94 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 186) LXXI. 193 Green ewer with waved strip below the handle, found in Dora.
†b. attributive or adj. Striped. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective]
ray1374
barreda1387
rayed?a1400
bendedc1400
scowledc1440
listeda1500
burledc1500
palya1509
stripy1513
rawed1534
straked1537
railye1539
rowed1552
begaired1554
pirnie1597
tiger-marked1597
tiger-striped1597
interlined1601
waled1602
striped1604
panached1664
strip1666
ribboned1790
zebraed1806
zebrinea1810
banded1823
sparred1827
notate1857
zebraic1858
stroked1896
tigered1969
bestriped-
1666 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1840) II. 539 For six yeardis of strip silk stuff..015 08 00.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stripv.1

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/
Forms: Past tense and past participle stripped /strɪpt/, stript. Forms: Old English strýpan, Middle English strupen, Middle English–1500s stripe, Middle English–1500s strype, Middle English strepe, streepe, struype, Middle English–1500s stryppe, Middle English–1600s strippe, Middle English streppe, 1600s stripp, 1500s– strip. past tense Old English strýpte, strípte, Middle English strepte, streopte, strupte, Middle English strypid, striput, strepid, strope, 1500s stryp(p)ed, 1500s– stripped, stript. past participle Old English -strýped, Middle English istruped, Middle English i-strupt, i-stripte, Middle English strypte, striped, 1500s stryp(p)ed, striped, 1600s strip'd, Middle English– stripped, 1500s– stript.
Etymology: Middle English stripe , strepe , strupe (ü) < Old English *stríepan , *strépan , *strýpan (whence be-strýpan to plunder, despoil: see bestrip v.), corresponding to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch strôpen (modern Dutch stroopen ), to plunder, strip, Middle High German ströufen to skin, chastise (modern German streifen to strip off) < West Germanic *straupjan ; the Germanic root *straup- : *strup- probably occurs also in Middle High German strupfen to strip off, and possibly in strop n.1The normal modern form of the present-stem would be *stripe; the shortening of the vowel probably took place first before the two consonants in the past tense and past participle stript, and hence extended to the present-stem. The modern Dutch strippen to strip (tobacco), sometimes cited as cognate, is probably < English.
I. To unclothe, denude.
1.
a. transitive. To divest (a person, body) of clothing; to undress, make bare or naked. Often more definitely with complement or phrase, to strip naked, to strip to the skin, (to the buff). Const. of, †out of (one's clothing); down, off, in intransitive for reflexive use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (intransitive)]
stripa1225
unbusk1596
uncase1598
disapparela1605
undressa1625
disarray1678
unrig1693
disrobe1716
peel1785
tirr1787
unattire1791
shuck1848
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (reflexive)]
stripa1225
spoila1382
unclothea1382
despoil1388
spoila1395
undighta1400
uncase1576
disrobe1581
unreadya1586
untire1597
devest1598
discasea1616
undressa1616
disvest1627
doff1697
tirr1787
unray1825
divest1848
undrape1869
unrind1872
shuck1897
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person
to dight nakedc1200
stripa1225
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nakea1350
despoilc1386
spoilc1386
spoila1400
uncleada1400
undighta1400
unarray14..
disarrayc1425
disattire?1473
unray1485
uncover1530
tirr1553
disclothe1570
disvesture1570
uncoat1571
uncase1576
unapparel1577
disrobe1590
unrig1591
unbusk1596
unstrip1596
untire1597
devest1598
unparel1603
unshale1604
unvest1609
disapparel1610
flaya1616
undress1615
disinvest1619
disvest1627
despoil1632
blanch1675
unpack1765
ungarment1805
peel1820
divest1848
divesture1854
a1225 Juliana 16 He het hatterliche strupen hire steort naket.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 807 Ye dide me streepe out of my poure weede And richely me cladden.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 221 [Heo] was i-stripte and i-scourged [L. exspoliata flagellaretur].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 480/1 Strypyn, or streppyn, or make nakyd, nudo, denudo.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 121 Þay buffed hym and bobbyd hym, and aftyr striput hym naked.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 §2 They shall strype hym naked from the myddel upwarde & cause hym to be whypped.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xix. sig. Bb3 For there they began to strip her of her clothes, when I came in among them.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers vii. I j Her husband..might strip her out of her clothes,..and beat her openly.
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia xxxii. 119 Strip, strip, man, woman, child,..Leave not a rag on, turn them out of doors.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 250 Thus Ripheus, Dymas, all the Trojan Train Lay down their own Attire, and strip the slain.
1825 W. Scott Talisman v, in Tales Crusaders III. 130 He beheld the anchorite stripping his shoulders with frantic haste, of their shaggy mantle.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxv. 321 It meant stripping him naked..and then beating him to death with rods.
reflexive.c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 714 Anon he preyde hire strepen hire al naked.c1450 Gesta Romanorum xiii. 43 He strepid him, and shewid his woundis.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 147 Who led me instantly vnto his Caue, There stript him~ selfe. View more context for this quotation1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 27 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors I made some difficulty to accept of the profers they made me to strip themselves naked.1720 Prior Truth & Falsehood 23 The Nymph..Stript her self naked to the skin.1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 78 He then stripped himself, and dived round the net.1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada viii. 176 Stripping ourselves to the buff, we hung up our steaming clothes.intransitive for reflexive.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 31 Benches, where you sit down, and lay your cloaths after you have stript.1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 147 The other, being a good Swimmer, stripped, and put off to it.1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lv. 84 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.1962 D. Francis Dead Cert xi. 124 I'm glad it's you that's got to strip off and get soaked, and not me.1976 D. Barnes Yesterday is Dead ii. 272 After taking a leak he'd strip down and jack off.
†b. figurative.phr. [Compare French ‘se despouiller avant que se coucher’ (Cotgrave).]
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] > divest oneself of property > in preparation for death
strip1692
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 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. transferred (jocular nonce-use).
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 243 Therefore on, or strippe your sword starke naked. View more context for this quotation
d. To divest (a person, oneself) of outer garments, or of some specified outer garment. Const. of, †out of. Sometimes in to strip to, †into, †unto (the shirt or other inner garment).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person > divest of specific garments > other
stripc1422
unwimplec1430
unhose1483
unmuffle1579
ungarter1594
unrobe1598
c1422 T. Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 233 He strypid hir anoon left al delay, Vn-to hir smok.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. xxxvii. f. liiij They strypte him [sc. Ioseph] out of his gay coote that was vpon him.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiij Diuerse offenders..came wel appareled to Westmynster, & sodeynly stryped them into their shertes.
a1627 H. Shirley Martyr'd Souldier (1638) v. I 1 b How comes she to this habite? Went she thus in? Epid. No Sir, mine owne hands stript her into rags.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1188 Then like a Robber [thou] stripdst them of thir robes. View more context for this quotation
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 62 I have known mechanics frequently contract fatal diseases, by working stript at an open window.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII lxxiii. 101 An old man..besmeared with dust, Stript to his waistcoat.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 61 Two or three archers showed themselves, stripped of their tunics, and only attired in their shirts and hose.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. v. 116 He had already stripped himself of his wrappings,..and..at once followed Clara to the squire's room.
figurative.1675 H. 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. intransitive for reflexive. 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.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (intransitive)] > in preparation for contest
strip1688
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (intransitive)] > present good appearance > when stripped
strip1815
1688 J. Bunyan Heavenly Foot-man (1724) 27 If thou intendest to win, thou must Strip, thou must lay aside every Weight.
1711 R. Steele Spectator 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.
1815 T. Belcher Art of Boxing ix. 33 James Belcher..stripped remarkably well, and displayed much muscle.
1833 Q. Rev. 49 391 Whether it be the prize-fighter who strips in the ring, or the race-horse at the starting-post.
1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 73 A sprinter, too, to use a cant phrase of pedestrianism, ‘strips big’—i.e. looks bigger stripped than he does in his clothes.
1932 D. 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.
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences ix. 201 Such boys, to use the drill-instructor's expression, ‘strip better’.
f. transitive. To deprive of armour, insignia, ornaments; also figurative. Also const. †out of.
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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > of any adjunct or asset
stripc1405
disgarnish1481
disray1483
disfurnish1531
unpeoplea1533
disarray1579
disrobe1606
diseffect1613
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 148 To ransake in the taas of bodies dede Hem for to strepe of harneys and of wede.
1592 J. Stow Annales 665 His souldiors were stripped out of their harnes, and let go.
1622 C. Fitzgeffry Elisha 24 Doe they ake to bee..stripped [printed shipped] of their Iewels as the Israelites were?
1785 W. Cowper 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?
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iv. 60 Caron..regains his Lawsuit..strips Reporter Goezman of the judicial ermine.
1866 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel II. iii. 86 The mutineers were stripped of their uniforms.
†g. To discharge (a liveried servant). Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 13 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 intransitive of a horse, to undergo this process.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > remove clothing of race-horse
strip1730
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (intransitive)] > have covers removed
strip1857
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > engage in horse racing [verb (intransitive)] > of horse: have tackle, etc., removed
strip1857
1730 J. Cheny Hist. 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.
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone ix. 83 The bell for saddling rang, and the horses came out. The mare stripped beautifully, as fine as a star.
1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. 1 110 We have never seen a better-looking lot of two-year olds stripped at so early a period of the year.
1897 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 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.
1973 Times 26 Feb. 12/8 Skymas runs in the Wills Premier Chase at Haydock this week, and will certainly strip fit.
i. To reduce (a non-commissioned officer) to the ranks.
ΚΠ
1919 War Terms in Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 ‘Stripping’ an N.C.O. means reducing his rank.
j. intransitive. To perform a strip-tease act. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > perform in variety [verb (intransitive)] > striptease
tease1927
strip1929
strip-tease1937
1929 Variety 25 Sept. 53/3 She has the unadornment stuff to herself, since the other gals never strip beyond regulation soub garb.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 68 She stripped teasily for binocular man.
1962 J. D. MacDonald Girl 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. figurative.
a. To divest or dispossess (a person, oneself) of attributes, titles, rights, honours, offices, etc. Const. †out of, †from, of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing
to do offeOE
to lay downc1275
to weve offc1290
stripc1320
doffa1375
loose1382
ofdrawa1393
casta1400
to take offa1400
warpa1400
to cast offc1400
to catch offc1400
waivec1400
voidc1407
to put off?a1425
to wap offc1440
to lay from, offc1480
despoil1483
to pull offc1500
slip1535
devest1566
to shift off1567
daff1609
discuss1640
to lay off1699
strip1762
douse1780
shuffle1837
derobe1841
shed1858
skin1861
peel1888
pull1888
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > of an honour, distinction, or office
stripc1320
spoilc1430
regrade1534
exute1535
dishonour1654
c1320 Castle 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.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. M.iiiv The prince stripping himself of the person of a prince, and minglinge himselfe equallye with his vnderlinges.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvii. 44 His own vnkindnes That stript her from his benediction. View more context for this quotation
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 621 Stephen afterwards stript him out of these honours.
1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim x. 56 He ought to strip himself of all affections to the world.
1675 J. Bunyan Saved by Grace in Wks. (1692) 561/1 Of his Godhead he could not strip himself.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. v. 124 Many cities of the east were stript of their ancient honours.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 126 Queensberry was stripped of all his employments.
1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1864) 2nd Ser. i. 2 He stripped the so-called religious party..of their respectability.
1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. xxiv. 245 The cardinal stripped him of his deanery.
1906 C. Bigg Wayside Sketches 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > of any adjunct or asset > specifically of a thing
robc1450
strip1597
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 158 There is no necessitie of stripping sacraments out of all such attire of Ceremonies as mans wisedome hath at any time clothed them withall.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 253 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.
1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 272 Some~times I have seen that resplendent globe, stript of her radiance.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. iii. 69 Your friend, sir, must at least strip his proposals of their fine gilding.
1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 39 The canonical writings have, in the process, been stripped of every claim to our regard.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 161 I doubt the wisdom of stripping all social events of everything that appeals to the imagination.
1908 Programme 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).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > the true character or identity of
utter1526
wray1576
convince1583
strip1619
dispersonate1624
convict1717
to show up1821
out1990
1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. B7 Shutting my Muse in silence, least she strip This Saint-like creature with a Satyres whip.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 494 He hides behind a magisterial air His own offences, and strips others bare.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 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. Obsolete.For slang uses see quot. 1699.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > completely
bestrip1065
stripa1225
shavec1399
barec1440
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shrig1601
undress1641
drain1660
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)]
reaveOE
stripa1225
pill?c1225
robc1225
peela1250
despoil1297
raimc1300
spoilc1330
spoila1340
to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387
despoil1393
preya1400
spoila1400
spulyiea1400
unspoila1400
riflec1400
poll1490
to pill and poll1528
to poll and pill1528
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pilyie1539
devour?1542
plume1571
rive1572
bepill1574
fleece1575
to prey over1576
pread1577
disvaledge1598
despoliate1607
to make spoil of1613
expilate1624
to peel and poll1641
depredate1651
violatea1657
disvalise1672
to pick feathers off (a person)1677
to make stroy of1682
spoliate1699
pilfer1714
snabble1725
rump1815
vampire1832
sweat1847
ploat1855
vampirize1888
a1225 Juliana 62 Þu..deidest..ant stepe adun & struptest [MS. Bodl. herhedest] helle.
c1425 Eng. Conq. Ireland 144 Thay [the governors of Ireland]..pulled & strope ham that non harme dydde.
1612 S. Rid Art of Iugling sig. C4v He that hath the first dice, is like alwaies to stripp and rob all the table about.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (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.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting 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 centuries and in the 20th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > completely
bestrip1065
stripa1225
shavec1399
barec1440
strip1594
shrig1601
undress1641
drain1660
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] > make a spoil of (something)
stripc1200
spoilc1380
riflec1391
pilla1393
spoila1400
bezzlec1430
peelc1450
despoil1483
spulyie1488
strip1594
prey1596
pillage1600
plunder1643
scoff1893
1594 Selimus Greene's in Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 216 We that haue fought with mighty Prester John, And stript th' Ægyptian soldan of his camp.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria iv. v, in Terence in Eng. 86 Despoliavit nos omnibus. He hath not left vs a dish to eate our meat in. He hath stript us of al.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 143 Many a one here is borne to a fair estate, and is strip't of it.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 131 An Endeavour to strip him of his Friends.
1726 Whole Art & Myst. of 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 P. Longueville Hermit 259 Yearly stripping the Eagles of their Eggs, had prevented their Encrease.
1737 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 266 His fate was to be strip'd of all he had in Sweden.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 24 [They] in the space of a few weeks stript him intirely of his dominions, and drove him..to take refuge in the court of Bavaria.
1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper xxxiii. 385 The pickpockets had stripped him of his last farthing.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House ii, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 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?
1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep i. vii. 130 They had only to get hold of Haraldsen..to strip him bit by bit of his possessions.
1950 ‘C. S. Forester’ Mr. 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.
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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > deprive (a thing)
stub1658
strip1675
1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xxiv. 265 The Basis whereof is Antimony stripped of its venenous Sulphur.
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 491 Macquer first discovered, that Prussiated Iron, or Berlin blue, might be stripped of the tinging matter by digestion with alkalis.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 71 Plants are often stripped of their colours by the operation of the same agents through which they originally acquired them.
d. to strip a peg: to buy second-hand or ready-made clothes. slang.
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1908 R. Broughton Mamma xvi You have stripped a peg, as I told you not... I told you to have him properly fitted out at Swears and Wells'.
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.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare
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flay1636
denude1658
nudate1721
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 119 Haueð ipiled Mi figer irent alþe rinde þer of. istruped [a1250 Nero despoiled] hire steortnaked.
1660 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Vernay Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (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.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 83 Thou best Anana,..Quick, let me strip thee of thy spiny Coat, Spread thy ambrosial Stores, and feast with Jove!
1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 10 May 379 They have been stripping trees (taking the bark off) about five or six days.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 184/1 When the seed is stripped of its testa.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Strip, to bark the oak tree.
b. To pull off the winter growth of hair from (a dog); to pluck. Cf. stripping n.1 1a.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [verb (transitive)] > clip or pluck dog
poodle1902
strip1930
1930 E. 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.
1931 Daily Tel. 21 May 1/3 Dogs stripped.
†5. To skin (an animal; in Hunting spec. a hare). Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of skin > skin (an animal)
stripa1425
pelt1568
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxiv Þenne shulde she [sc. the hare] be stripped all, saue the heede.
1486 Bk. 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.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. i. f. ii And let the burntoffrynges be strypped and hewed in peces.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvii. 100 An Hart or a Bucke is flayed, a Hare strypped.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 15 The Hare is Stripped or Cased.
1770 G. White Let. Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 78 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).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of foliage or fruit
strip1697
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > thresh
threshOE
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thrash1594
to beat out1611
flack1743
cob1796
flail1821
scutch1844
strip1861
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 86 Crop luxuriant Straglers, nor be loath To strip the Branches of their leafy Growth. View more context for this quotation
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 87 The Rook is a subtil Fowl, and will strip a Walnut Tree in a little time.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. ii. 3 We sometimes see trees strip'd by insects.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 74 If the upper part of a branch is stripped of its leaves.
1861 S. Smiles Lives 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.
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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > clear out > clear of (something)
clear1535
strip1616
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 59 The bowels of our mother were not ript For Mader-pits, nor the sweet meadowes stript Of their choise beauties.
1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xxiii. 220 Our Altars are also uncovered and stript of all their Ornaments.
1765 London 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.
1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 419 His goodly shelves are one by one stript of his favourite old authors.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Strip,..7. To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as, cattle strip the ground of its herbage.
1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus i. 112 I stripped the house for a sale.
1913 J. 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 dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop
sneda800
shredc1000
crop?c1225
purgec1384
parea1398
shear1398
shridea1425
dodc1440
polla1449
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bough?1523
head?1523
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prune1547
prime1565
twig1570
reform1574
disbranch1575
shroud1577
snathe1609
detruncate1623
amputate1638
abnodate1656
duba1661
to strip up1664
reprune1666
pollard1670
shrub1682
log1699
switch1811
limb1835
preen1847
to cut back1871
shrig1873
brash1950
summer prune1980
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)] > adjust or arrange
to cock one's hat1633
to strip up1664
to shoot one's cuffs or (formerly) linen1878
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > adjust or arrange > sleeve
strip1607
to strip up1664
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing > specific garments
avalec1330
vailc1450
to gather offc1460
strip1607
unmufflea1652
to strip up1664
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxvii. 72 Cutting all the rest away..stripping up such as you spare from their extravagant Branches.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 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 Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) > deprive of timber, etc.
delignate1655
strip1682
1682 tr. Charter of Cinque Ports 138 Strip or Estrepement is a Writ for taking Lands from him that strips and spoils them.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (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.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > clear of a crop
pill1555
strip1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of 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.
1886 Pall 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 (originally U.S.). To unpack or unload (a load, container, lorry, etc.).
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society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > load a container > unload
strip1963
1950 Western Folklore 9 119 Pulled, stripped, or gutted a load, lost a load of logs.]
1963 Amer. Speech 38 45 Strip a load, v. phr., to unload a truck.
1968 Wall 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.
1970 Times 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.
1972 Guardian 8 May 20/2 According to the dockers' leader..those terms..are for..the same guarantees over ‘stuffing’ (packing) and ‘stripping’ (unpacking) the containers.
1973 Amer. Speech 1969 44 208 Strip her, unload a trailer.
8. To take away the accessories, equipment, or furniture of; to dismantle. Now frequently in contexts of the inspection or repair of motor vehicles, engines, etc. Also with down. Cf. stripped adj.1 4.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > take away equipment of
strip1683
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of accessories or equipment
impoverish1612
strip1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 207 Thus the first Quarter is Stript..in order to be Destributed.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 391 Strip a Form. [Reference to quot. 16831.]
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine To Strip the masts, is to unrig a ship, or deprive the masts of their machinery and furniture.
1798 R. W. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clvi The Guerrier and Conquerant made a very inefficient resistance, the latter being soon stripped of her main and mizen-masts.
1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 24 Sept. in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii. 370 When the squall passed we attempted to hoist the sails again but again we were stripped.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 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.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 262 Stripping and repairing guns. To take to pieces a breech-loader for cleaning or repairs, first remove the fore~end and barrels.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 262 To strip breech-actions,..the first thing will be to remove the spring.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 263 To strip a muzzle-loader, first remove the lock.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 134 Strip a forme, to take away the furniture from the pages of a forme, and thus leave it naked.
1937 Discovery 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.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 778/1 He drives the thing [sc. a car] straight into the repair shop at the back and has it stripped down.
1972 Daily Tel. 20 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 10/4 At the end of 36,000 miles the engines were stripped and every component measured and meticulously examined.
1981 B. 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 adverb off, away, or with preposition off, from.
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c1290 St. Francis 11 in S. Eng. Leg. 54 He strepte of is cloþes of is rug and ȝaf þis pouere knyȝt.
c1290 Beket 2201 in S. Eng. Leg. 169 Ase heo strepten of is cloþes, al a-boue heo founde Clerkene cloþes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 173 Þis Cambises..made men stripe of þe skyn of a iuge, for he hadde i-ȝeue a false dome.
a1400 Coer de L. 3399 And loke that hee her here off strype, Off hed, off berd, and eke off lyppe.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 143 And to the hors he gooth hym faire and wel He strepeth of the bridel right anon.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 220 This Prince..stript off his gorgious habilliments.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 389 Stripping away his upper garment, and displaying the badge of knighthood upon his shoulder.
1895 R. W. Chambers King in Yellow (1909) 255 As she spoke she stripped off her gloves.
figurative.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 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.1549 J. Olde tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Eph. Prol. 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.1766 J. Towers Brit. Biogr. I. 127 [Chaucer] discovered nature in all her appearances, and stripped off every disguise.1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 583 Habits are soon assum'd: but, when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flay'd alive.1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §1. 115 Picture after picture strips the veil from the corruption of the mediæval Church.1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. i. 3 The immense correspondence of all kinds which he left strips away disguises.
b. without adverb: To divest oneself of. Chiefly Scottish.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing
to do offeOE
to lay downc1275
to weve offc1290
stripc1320
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ofdrawa1393
casta1400
to take offa1400
warpa1400
to cast offc1400
to catch offc1400
waivec1400
voidc1407
to put off?a1425
to wap offc1440
to lay from, offc1480
despoil1483
to pull offc1500
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devest1566
to shift off1567
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discuss1640
to lay off1699
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derobe1841
shed1858
skin1861
peel1888
pull1888
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 150 [She] never once attempted to strip a single petticoat, or cover the board, as her last stake, with her head-clothes.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. vi. 383 The guests all stript their coats.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 212 Aleck stripped his buckskins for the attempt.
1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. 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.
figurative.1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxx. 212 Strip the mask, Audley Egerton; let the world know you for what you are!
†10. To take as plunder or spoil. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] > make a spoil of (something)
stripc1200
spoilc1380
riflec1391
pilla1393
spoila1400
bezzlec1430
peelc1450
despoil1483
spulyie1488
strip1594
prey1596
pillage1600
plunder1643
scoff1893
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom 195 Erest he strepte of him his shep.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 11 For all the Temporall Lands..Would they strip from vs. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. 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 adj.1 3.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip off (a covering)
shredc1000
tirvec1300
to turn offc1390
stripc1430
tirr1584
tirl1603
skin1659
society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > remove paint or varnish
strip1908
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 27 Take Almaundys..& strype of þe skyn.
1486 Bk. St. Albans b iij b Take a knyfe..and stripe the skynne a way from the necke.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/2 [Wett-Glover.] Pulling is stripping the Wooll of the skin.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 97/1 [Cushion and Bed Terms.] Stripping the Feathers from the Quills.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 210 Some strip the Skin, some portion out the Spoil.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (1778) 363 Gather your currants when the sun is hot upon them, strip them from the stalks.
c1770 H. Glasse Compl. Confectioner 26 Take young and thick stalks of angelica.., strip off the skins, and cut them into narrow slips.
1780 Mirror No. 93. ⁋8 The best china was set out... The covers were stripped from the worked chair-bottoms.
1836 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 9 484 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.
1849 M. Taylor's Builder's Price-bk. 63 Stripping and relaying ladies, countess, and duchess slating, per square, 0 10 0.
1854 Poultry Chron. 2 22 Directly the feathers are stripped from the poultry, throw them loosely in the corner.
1888 W. 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.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 25 Apr. 78/2 The act of the defendants in stripping off the roof amounted to a forcible entry.
1908 P. 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.
1913 J. 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.
1956 Pract. 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.
1981 New Homemaker Apr. 90/1 (advt.) Stripping isn't the soul-destroying job it used to be... Powerful Ronseal strips without scraping.
b. intransitive. Of bark, membrane: To lend or adapt itself to the process of peeling or decortication. Of a layer of metal: To become detached.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > become uncovered [verb (intransitive)] > become stripped or lend itself to stripping
strip1877
1877 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home (1890) i. 15 In the spring, when the oak timber is throwed (because, you see, the sap be rising, and the bark strips then).
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 712 The leptomeninges stripping, on the contrary, with undue ease.
1905 P. N. Hasluck Electro-plating 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > adjust or arrange > sleeve
strip1607
to strip up1664
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing > specific garments
avalec1330
vailc1450
to gather offc1460
strip1607
unmufflea1652
to strip up1664
1607 B. Barnes Divils Charter Prol. A 2 b Presently the Pronotary strippeth vp Alexanders sleeue and letteth his arme bloud in a saucer.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iii. 47 Then will he strip his sleeue, and shew his skarres. View more context for this quotation
1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 5 He stript up, and shew'd..a most thundring Arm.
c1815 Houlston'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.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > adorn (persons) with jewels [verb (transitive)] > slip off a jewel
stripa1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 101 I begge but leaue to ayre this Iewell... She stript it from her Arme.
1652 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (ed. 2) ii. 186 Strip from your fingers your gold rings.
1865 A. Cary Ballads & Lyrics 117 She stript from her finger the shining ring.
14. To remove entirely, clear off (vegetation). Also, to harvest (a crop).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > uncover and expose
unwryc825
bareOE
unhelec1000
uncoverc1390
disclosea1393
to lay outa1400
unhidea1400
declose14..
unbare1530
discover1563
imbear1657
fleece1667
unfence1715
to lay bare1807
to open out1832
strip1839
expose1851
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of vegetation > strip (vegetation)
strip1839
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)]
strip1891
1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 261 They have almost stripped the trees and thickets along the swamp road since I first came here.
1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. i. 6 Twenty acres of grain can be stripped per day.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 2/7 The corn almost ready to strip.
1979 Verbatim 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).
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream
wash1543
strip1674
stream1778
van1839
1674 J. Ray Prepar. Tin (E.D.S.) 12 Washing and sifting of it, which they call stripping of it.
1871 J. J. Simpson Recit. 19 The wash dirt will be full of gold, ready to strip.
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) viii. 54 The tin gravel is ‘stripped’ at a cost of 3s. to 6s. per ton.
16.
a. Tobacco Manufacturing. To remove the leaves from the stems of (tobacco). Also absol.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > prepare tobacco [verb (transitive)] > remove leaves
strip1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 274/1 Termes used by Tobacconists. Strip it, is take all the stalks away from the leaues.
1786 Act 26 Geo. III c. 52 §1 No..Tobacco stalks stripped, nor Snuff manufactured from Tobacco so imported, shall be removed [etc.].
1883 Killebrew Rep. 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.
1883 Killebrew Rep. Tobacco U.S. 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 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > prepare tobacco [verb (transitive)] > remove stalks or stems
stem1724
strip1844
1844 Rep. Sel. Comm. Tobacco Trade, Min. Evid. 233 Tobacco could be stripped here at from 18d. to 2s. a cwt.
1881 Spons' 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. Mechanics. To tear off (the thread from a screw or bolt, the teeth from a wheel).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > make tools, equipment, or fastenings [verb (transitive)] > processes in making screws
tap1815
screw1833
strip1873
burr1880
1873 H. L. Nelthropp Treat. Watch-work 21 The teeth of the scape~wheel will, by revolving against the jagged edge, be cut off; the wheel is then stript.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2430/2 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > rip off screw-head of ball or bullet
strip1839
1839 A. Ure 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. intransitive for reflexive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (intransitive)] > be torn off
strip1854
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > actions of bullet or shot
ricochet1804
club1830
cluster1830
strip1854
upset1859
slug1875
keyhole1878
group1882
string1892
mushroom1893
splash1894
to set up1896
phut1901
pattern1904
print1961
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 202 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.
1855 A. Piper Milit. & Nav. Dict. (at cited word) 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.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 169 Immediately the barrel gets hot and expands, the bullets strip.
1978 D. 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. 18391.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure 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.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvi. 490 On ‘stripping’ the fault towards the trough, the limestone was found to be in contact with a seam of coal.
1887 Times (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.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > smooth surface
planish1622
strip1831
surface1837
grind1888
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 301 The file is now in a state either to be stripped or ground.
1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch 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.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 279/2 The [gun-]barrels are then ‘stripped’—that is, turned down the whole length to correspond with the bore.
1898 J. Southward Mod. Printing I. 96 [The leads are finished] by ‘stripping’, or ‘shaving’, in a stripping machine.
20. Carding.
a. (See quot. 1835.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > treat or process wool [verb (transitive)] > comb or tease > processes involved in
strip1835
1835 A. Ure 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.
b. To remove fluff, etc. from the teeth of (a card).
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > comb > remove fluff from
strip1891
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Stripper, the man who strips the cards or leather combs of fluff.
21. Cloth-making. (See quot. 1904.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > remove dye
mealy1667
discharge1727
run1850
strip1896
1896 W. M. Gardner Wool Dyeing 32 This process is frequently resorted to for ‘stripping’ off the colour of dyed material previous to re-dyeing.
1904 Eng. 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. 1884.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > found or cast (object) > separate casting from mould
strip1884
to knock out1906
1884 W. 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 intransitive of a plating: To come off.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > remove scales or plating from metal
scale1702
strip1877
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [verb (intransitive)] > of metal plating: come off
strip1877
1877 A. Watt Electro-metall. (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.
1880 A. Watt Electro-metall. (ed. 7) 114 Nickel~plated articles may be stripped in this solution by immersing them in it for a few moments.
1880 J. W. Urquhart Electro-plating vi. 162 Deposits of nickel having a brilliant appearance on leaving the solution..are very apt to strip.
1898 Threlfall 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > ion > ionization > produce ions [verb (transitive)] > deprive of electron, etc.
strip1933
1933 O. 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.
1936 Trans. Faraday Soc. 32 350 One empirical molar weight of C2H4S4 in suspension in water is first ‘stripped’ of two sulphur atoms with sodium hydroxide.
1954 H. E. Huntley Nucl. 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.
1969 Times 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.
1970 Sci. Amer. Aug. 32/3 The ions are stripped not only in the terminal but also halfway down the positive acceleration column.
1978 L. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > remove from nucleus [verb (transitive)]
strip1935
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > ion > ionization > produce ions [verb (transitive)] > remove electron
strip1935
1935 B. Jaffe Outposts of Sci. ix. 349 This recoiling nucleus spends its energy of motion in stripping electrons from other atoms near it.
1947 Physical Rev. 72 1003 A simple theory of neutron production, according to which the proton is ‘stripped’ from the deuteron by striking a target nucleus.
1958 Ann. 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).
1979 Sci. 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > oil refining or separating processes > [verb (transitive)]
crack1868
strip1922
sweeten1924
re-refine1973
1922 D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry II. 324 The great bulk of crude handled was still stripped in batch stills.
1931 Hoffert & Claxton Motor Benzole viii. 226 It is essential that the benzole should be stripped from the wash oil as completely as possible.
1938 A. 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.
1979 Liquefied 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. Chemistry. To extract or recover (a solute) from a solvent previously used in its extraction.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > solvents and solutes > [verb (transitive)] > strip
strip1962
1962 F. A. Cotton & G. Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. xxxii. 906 The protactinium can be stripped from the solvent by aqueous acid fluoride solutions.
1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) 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; frequently const. in. Also, to make (a flat) thus.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > type founding > [verb (transitive)] > make plate > mount copy for
strip1937
1937 R. 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.
1948 R. 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.
1948 R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures viii. 233 Positives used for stripping flats for the deep-etch process are stripped on a piece of transparent acetate.
1964 R. W. Polk & E. W. Polk Pract. of Printing (ed. 6) xl. 304 (caption) A masking sheet with negatives stripped in.
1964 R. W. Polk & E. W. Polk Pract. of Printing (ed. 6) xl. 306 Positioning and attaching films on a masking sheet is called stripping a flat.
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: 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.
1975 J. 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.

Compounds

C1.
a.
strip bush n. slang (see quot. 1864).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > of linen from line or hedge
snow-dropper1847
snow-gatherer1859
strip bush1864
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Strip-bush, a fellow who steals clothes put out to dry after washing.
strip cell n. a cell in which a prisoner is subjected to sensory or physical deprivation.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell > without furnishing, clothes, etc.
strip cell1971
1971 New Society 1 July 15/1 A strip-cell. This contains only a mattress on a bare floor.
1973 Black 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.
strip-down n. U.S. colloquial (a) 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).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > taking apart
unknittingc1384
unstriking1567
jointing1591
disassembly1894
disassemblage1899
strip-down1950
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > stripped down to improve performance
strip-down1950
1950 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Oct. (B ed.) 7/4 Juveniles who have been racing the highways in stepped-up strip-downs.
1963 Times 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.
1969 Daily Tel. 18 Feb. 5/5 Repair is in progress. A strip-down survey of the refinery is being undertaken.
strip-jack-naked n. dialect = beggar-my-neighbour n. at beggar v. Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > children's or simple games > [noun]
snap snorum1622
beggar-my-neighbour1734
snip-snap-snorum1755
old maid1831
pounce commerce1847
muggins1855
happy families1861
author1863
snap1881
strip-jack-naked1881
spoof1884
animal grab1894
grab1900
donkey1920
1881 Oxfordsh. Gloss. (Suppl.) Strip Jack naked, a game at cards sometimes called ‘Byet (beat) my neighbour out of doors.’
strip-me-naked n. slang gin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun]
bottled lightning1713
gin1713
royal bob1722
diddle1725
strike-fire1725
tittery1725
max1728
maxim1739
strip-me-naked1751
eye-water1755
sky blue1755
lightning1781
Jacky1800
ribbon1811
Daffy's elixir1821
sweet-stuff1835
tiger's milk1850
juniper1857
cream of the wilderness1858
satin1864
Twankay1900
panther1931
mother's ruin1933
needle and pin1937
1751 Gen. Advertiser 7 Mar. 1/2 in Notes & Queries 5th Ser. VII. 69/2 Strip-me-naked, or Royal Gin for Ever.
1765 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 112 Tape, glim, rushlight, white port, rasher of bacon, gunpowder, slug, wild-fire, knock-me-down, and strip-me naked.
strip-poker n. originally U.S. a game of poker in which a losing player sheds a garment as a penalty or forfeit.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > varieties of
vaunt1598
brag1734
draw poker1847
penny ante1855
freeze-out1856
draw1857
straight poker1864
stud poker1864
mistigris1875
highball1878
whisky-poker1878
stud-horse poker1881
stud horse1882
stud1884
showdown poker1892
show poker1895
red dog1919
showdown1927
strip-poker1929
manilla1930
Hold 'Em1964
Texas Hold 'Em1968
pai gow poker1985
1929 M. Lief Hangover i. 9 ‘How about a fast game of strip-poker?’ she suggested.
1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 86 Two girls playing strip poker.
1961 Times 14 June 16/3 There had been a ‘strip-poker’ party that night.
1978 D. Williams Treasure up in Smoke xix. 169 ‘He..suggested some kind of poker.’.. ‘Strip poker?’
strip-search n. a search of a suspect during the course of which he or she is stripped naked; cf. skin search n. at skin n. Compounds 5.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > types of search
strip-search1947
body search1961
sweep1966
toss1970
bag job1971
society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > investigate or discover as a detective [verb (transitive)] > search
toss1939
strip-search1947
1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War vi. 203 The shifts of the P.O.W. in stowing his loot, and..the amount that can be carried by one man on his own person, even through a ‘run-over’ and a ‘strip-search’.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 3 Oct. 10 c/5 Subjected to extreme trauma by a strip-search.
strip-search v. transitive to subject (a person) to a strip-search.
ΚΠ
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vii. 189 The arrested men were strip-searched and made to await the DI's pleasure.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 3 Oct. 10 c/5 A woman sentenced for drunken driving should not be strip-searched.
strip the willow n. a Scottish country dance performed by couples in longways sets.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances > Scottish
reela1585
Strathspey reel1747
Strathspey minuet1756
strathspey1776
Strathspey dance1780
Petronella1828
strip the willow1924
sixteensome reel1926
Dashing White Sergeant1929
Gay Gordons1947
1924 Scottish Country Dance Bk. I. 16 Strip the Willow or Drops of Brandy... Running step is used all through this dance.
1980 L. 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, < strip n.3 2] In various slang or colloquial combinations in sense 1j.
strip act n.
ΚΠ
1950 A. Cooke in Manch. Guardian Weekly 13 July 13/2 The all-American cult of the ‘strip act’.
strip bar n.
ΚΠ
1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) 728 Today the higher~priced girls are often connected with burlesque or work in strip-bars.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 96 One of the South Strand strip bars.
strip dancer n.
ΚΠ
1946 D. Runyon Short Takes 236 There were cut-outs of guys with their arms around hula dancers and around strip dancers.
strip girl n.
ΚΠ
1961 Times 21 Sept. 15/2 The strip-girl loved by a foolish, tiresome but engaging missionary.
strip party n.
ΚΠ
1959 Times 19 June (Queen in Canada Suppl.) p. iv/5 Police are always cracking down on private strip parties.
1972 J. Brown Chancer viii. 110 These strip parties—young business blokes—you know.
strip show n.
ΚΠ
1967 Listener 5 Oct. 437/3 One of the old Windmill strip shows.
1971 New Scientist 10 June 641/2 Their dirty raincoats..have been snapped up by strip-show patrons.
strip song n.
ΚΠ
1937 Hart & Kaufman You can't take it with You iii. 171 She kept singing a strip song while Mrs. Kirby undressed.
C2.
strip club n. an establishment providing entertainment in the form of strip-tease.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > striptease establishment
strip joint1951
peep joint1960
strip club1960
gentlemen's club1974
1960 Spectator 12 Aug. 236 That strip clubs have been multiplying in London recently is generally known.
1962 Spectator 7 Dec. 883 The strip-club owner who intends to fight..on a campaign against entertainments tax.
1973 J. M. White Garden Game 36 The neon lights of the strip-clubs and restaurants.
strip joint n. [joint n.1 14a.] slang = strip club n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > striptease establishment
strip joint1951
peep joint1960
strip club1960
gentlemen's club1974
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 27 June 30/3 Prince Georges County Sheriff Carlton Beall began a crackdown on what he called ‘strip joints’.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 148/4 Gambling rooms, saloons and strip joints.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 95 He now stands gawping incredulously at the strip-joints that jostle each other all along Cortez Avenue.

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To remove the bedclothes and linen from (a bed).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > cover bed [verb (transitive)] > remove bedclothes
strip1892
1892 Housewifery Jan. 4/2 Where the bed has not been stripped and the windows opened, do so.
1937 E. 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.
1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 11 Jud looked at the humped blankets, then walked across and pulled them back, stripping the bed completely.
1988 Sat. Evening 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.

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Commerce.
a. To sell off (the assets of a company) for profit: see also asset stripping n. at asset n. Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > convert into cash or capital
negotiate1671
realize1720
capitalize1797
cash1811
encash1861
bank1868
unfreeze1933
strip1972
1972 Observer 8 Oct. 15/1 Slater took only a few months to strip these assets out of Lotery.
1977 E. Ambler Send no More Roses xi. 265 Sometimes there were assets to be stripped. Sometimes..a loss position to be parlayed.
1980 Forbes 12 May 54/2 As a final resort, cash-hungry companies may simply have to carve up their balance sheets by stripping assets.
1984 Financial 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures
control1422
avouch1539
allocate1551
respond1588
score1592
carry1652
post1707
to carry forward1721
off-reckon1721
O. Ni.a1726
to carry over1745
rule1845
to write down1876
to close off188.
qualify1884
accrue1915
net1947
gross1954
strip1980
1980 Fortune 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.
1981 Times 8 May 27/8 After stripping out property disposals..profits rose by 20 per cent.
1989 Investors Chron. 17 Mar. 73/2 Underlying profits dropped from £167m to £120m if the contribution from Royal Ordnance is stripped out.
1990 Independent 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. Originally U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
recapitalize1856
refund1857
float1865
water1865
margin1870
unload1870
acquire1877
maintain1881
syndicate1882
scalp1886
pyramid1888
underwrite1889
oversubscribe1891
joint-stock1894
wash1895
write1908
mark1911
split1927
marry1931
stag1935
unwind1958
short1959
preplace1966
unitize1970
bed and breakfast1974
index-link1974
warehouse1977
daisy-chain1979
strip1981
greenmail1984
pull1986
1981 Bond Buyer 3 Feb. 1/1 The MAC bonds, stripped of the warrants, were quoted at [etc.].
1982 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. d12/5 Securities that have been stripped of coupons and used to create zero-coupon securities.
1984 Canad. 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.
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† stripv.2

Forms: Also Middle English strype, 1500s strippe.
Etymology: Proximate origin obscure; < Germanic root *strῑp- : see stripe n.3
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To move or pass swiftly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
scour13..
jace1393
hie1398
spina1400
fleetc1400
glentc1400
stripc1400
suea1450
carryc1450
speed1488
scud1532
streek1598
winga1616
to clip it1616
hackney1617
swifta1618
whirryc1630
dust1673
whew1684
race1702
stroke1735
cut1797
spank1807
skid1815
speela1818
crack1824
skimmer1824
slap1827
clip1832
skeet1838
marvel1841
lick1850
travel1850
rush1852
zip1852
sail1876
rabbit1887
move1906
high-tail1908
to ball the jack1914
buzz1914
shift1922
giddap1938
burn1942
hoosh1943
bomb1966
shred1977
c1400 Rowland & O. 560 And other stroke he to hym bere, And Doun by-fore hym it strypes there, his schelde a waye it reuede.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 41v The swiftest Hound, when he is hallowed, strippes forth.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 55 Th' Eagle..To countries farre remote would bend her flight, And with vnwearied wing strip through the skie.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. v. 134 As the Westerne side shee stript along.
2. transitive. To pass or surpass in running, flying, etc.; to pass by in travelling: = outstrip v.1 (recorded from 1580).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > gain (ground) upon > catch up or overtake > outstrip
to leave behinda1393
overgoc1425
preventa1500
outgo1530
out-trot1555
outstrip1567
stripa1592
outpacea1596
out-swift1606
to have (also get) the speed ofa1616
outstretcha1642
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1642
to gain bounds of1653
outrace1657
outspeed1661
to cast behind1681
distance1691
belag1721
repass1728
outfoot1740
outdistance1789
fore-reach1803
to have the foot of1832
to run away1843
slip1856
short-head1863
tine1871
forespeed1872
outrate1873
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A3 Alate we ran the deere and through the Lawndes Stript with our nagges the loftie frolicke bucks.
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H7v She..calls downe the Dragons that her chariot drawe, And..Mounteth thereon, in twinkling of an ey Stripping the winds.
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Apollo in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 42 When first, they stript the Maleane Promont'rie: Toucht at Laconias soile; in which a Towne Their ship ariu'd at .
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune i. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttttt2/1 Before he reacht it, he was out of breath, And then the other stript him.
1774 Ann. Reg., Poetry 211 But mark the beauteous Antelope!..he strips the wind, And leaves them lagging, panting, far behind.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

stripv.3

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/
Etymology: Cognate with stripe n.2; compare West Flemish 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. transitive. 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).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > draw last milk from
stroke1538
strip?1610
jib1728
strap1854
strop1884
to milk out1950
?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse i. sig. B3v More white, Then the new milke we strip before day light From the full fraighted bags of our faire flockes.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 357 To Strip, to draw the aftermilkings of cows.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 310 When the milkmaid has taken her share of milk, she looses the calf, who strips the cow.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of 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.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. i. 11 Never were cows that required such ‘stripping,’ or were expected to yield such ‘afterings’ as Black Nell and Daisy that night.
b. strip cup n. (see quot. 1962).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > vessel for examining milk samples
strip cup1941
1941 Roadhouse & 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.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Mar. 265/1 Every cow should be tried, using a strip cup, before putting on the machines.
1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 37 The routine use of strip-cups in the cowsheds will assist in the prevention of mastitis spreading.
1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 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.
1975 J. R. Campbell & R. T. Marshall Sci. of 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. 1883.)
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > accessories [verb (transitive)] > prepare gut strings
strip1883
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 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).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [verb (transitive)] > extract roe
spawn1880
strip1880
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. p. cix The mode of spawning or stripping fish..requires practice.
c. Farriery. (See quot. 1908.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > pull ears gently
strip1908
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 62 ‘Stripping’ the ears, i.e. pulling them gently through the hand from base to apex..should not be neglected.

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d. Angling. To draw in (a line or fish) with the hand. Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > draw in with the hand
hand-line1914
strip1979
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > draw in with hand
strip1979
1979 Angling July 31/2 Casting a team of three..wet-flies, downwind of a drifting boat and stripping them back in quickly.
1986 Trout 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.
1989 N.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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stripv.4

Brit. /strɪp/, U.S. /strɪp/
Etymology: < strip n.2
transitive. To cut into strips.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > cut into pieces > into strips or shreds
shredc1386
sliver1608
strip1885
1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap 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.

Derivatives

ˈstripping n.3 also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [adjective] > other types
roan1466
stripping1885
X-Acto1975
1885 Harper'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.’

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2. Broadcasting (originally U.S.). To broadcast (a television series or programme) every day at the same time.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [verb (transitive)] > broadcast of a serial programme
strip1975
1975 [implied in: Broadcasting 15 Sept. 52/2 It's a day-time series..now sold to over 40 television stations for stripping five days a week. (at stripping n.3 Additions 2)].
1977 L. 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.
1980 N.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.
1985 Broadcast 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.
1989 S. 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).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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