单词 | stripper |
释义 | strippern.1 1. a. One who strips another; also one who strips or strips off some article or product, e.g. bark of a tree, tobacco, the accumulation of shoddy in a carding-machine. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > one who stripper1581 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 162 Preferment to degrees in schole..ought to be a mightie stripper of insufficiencie. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Spoliateur, a spoyler; stripper, despoyler. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 367 The greater the flush of sap..it makes the better bark, and is better both for the tanner and the stripper. 1859 F. W. Fairholt Tobacco vi. 305 The ‘stripper’ performs her duties by folding the tobacco-leaf, and..cutting under both sides of the thick end of the stalk. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist iii, 48 Each spinner had three boys under him—the wheeler, the pointer, and the stripper. 1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 71 The stripper takes the gun to pieces down to the minutest detail, and carefully examines and regulates it in every way. 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 10 June 5/2 Had strippers been allowed to take out licenses to strip the wattles of their bark. b. colloquial (originally U.S.). A performer of strip-tease. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist teaser1929 stripper1930 strip-teaser1930 strippeuse1939 ecdysiast1940 strip-teaseuse1941 peeler1942 stripteuse1942 strip-tease artist1947 exotic1954 split beaver1972 1930 Variety 3 Dec. 54/5 (heading) Detroit censor pinches four stock strippers. 1945 P. Cheyney I'll say she Does! ii. 42 I was a stripper one time... I had a feature spot in the programme. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 13 July 13/2 A couple of famous strippers and a beloved Broadway comedian appeared in something called ‘Wine, Women, and Song’. 1960 New Left Rev. Mar. 45/2 The calculated obscenity of the stripper's act. 1972 C. Weston Poor, Poor Ophelia v. 27 She unzipped her..mini-dress, and with the grace of a professional stripper, stepped out of it. 1980 Times 21 Oct. 12/6 (caption) Why should it only be male strippers who are subsidized? 2. a. A machine or appliance for stripping. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 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. 1856 P. Kennedy Banks of Boro (1867) xli. 339 A..pair of strippers (curved chisels for stripping off bark). 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 842/2 A frame..which may be elevated to raise the stripper off the file through the instrumentality of a rock-shaft and a system of levers. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2430/2 Stripper 2. (Carding) a device for lifting the top flats from the carding-cylinder. 1882 Essex Herald No 4269/3 A stripper is a labour saving machine used in..Victoria... Its object is to strip the heads from the standing corn and thrash them at one operation. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 14/2 One by one the [willow-] switches are placed in the mechanical stripper. b. Oil Industry. A still for the fractionation of oil or oil products. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > types of rose-garland1527 sun still1688 pot still1799 turpentine still1799 still-pota1824 rectifying column1836 patent still1887 stripper1930 pipestill1931 solar still1946 1930 H. S. Bell Amer. Petroleum Refining (ed. 2) xii. 222 Reboiling coils are sometimes used as strippers. 1938 A. E. Dunstan et al. Sci. of Petroleum II. ii. xxv. 1559/2 Reheaters, when used, usually have been placed on the oil stream flowing from one of the lower plates of the stripper. 1961 D. Petrie Petroleum xi. 64 In order to make the fractionation process even more exact, each fraction when it leaves the tower is led into another smaller fractionating tower called a ‘side stripper’. 1975 W. G. Roberts Quest for Oil (rev. ed.) viii. 85 The purpose of the stripper is to remove small amounts of vapour from the liquid entering it. c. Physics. In a particle accelerator, a section containing metal foil or gas at a high positive potential, which removes electrons from the ions passing through it. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle accelerator > [noun] > devices in accelerators stripper1959 buncher1962 laddertron1972 wiggler1974 1959 Nucl. Instruments & Methods IV. 123/2 The image size and beam divergence required at the object point for the accelerator are limited by the dimensions of the stripper tube. 1974 J. B. A. England Techniques in Nucl. Struct. Physics i. iii. 268 There is usually little to choose in final beam intensity between foil strippers and gas strippers for hydrogen and helium ions. 1979 Sci. Amer. Apr. 47/2 The aiming mechanism would first direct the negative-hydrogen beam at the target and then pass it through a gas ‘stripper’ for neutralization. 3. plural. Gaming. ‘High cards cut wedge-shape, a little wider than the rest, so as to be easily drawn in a crooked game’ (Farmer & Henley). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun] > card or cards bum-cardc1555 key card1805 concave1825 strippers1843 convex1874 reader1887 stacked deck1964 1843 J. H. Greene Espos. Gambling (1845) 121 When cards are prepared as I have above described, they are called strippers. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 228 A tender-foot got in amongst the gamblers on board.., and what with ‘strippers’, and ‘stocking’, and ‘cold decks’,..and so forth, he hadn't the ghost of a show. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 222 The most commonly used form of cards, however, is that of the ‘double-wedges’ or ‘strippers’. 4. a. A bleaching agent or solvent used to remove colour from fabrics before re-dyeing. Cf. strip v.1 21. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > removing dye > agent stripper1909 1909 A. Morris in Rothery & Edmunds Mod. Laundry II. xl. 150 Permanganic acid in the form of its potash or soda salt is a powerful oxidizing stripper. 1957 Woman 16 Nov. 25/4 Light over dark won't go, but if you want to try it you'll need a colour ‘stripper’. b. A chemical preparation used to remove paint, varnish, etc., from a surface; paint stripper: see paint stripper n. at paint n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > remover paint remover1882 stripper1937 paint stripper1954 1937 A. Jones Cellulose Lacquers xii. 241 Wax has been objected to as a thickening agent as it settles out and the paint remover or stripper requires frequent and repeated shaking. 1949 C. H. Hayward Woodworker's Pocket Bk. 4 Many proprietary strippers are now available. 1979 C. Curzon Leaven of Malice ii. 22 I had bought..cleaning agents, strippers, filler for the cracks..in the plaster. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). strippern.2 ‘A cow not in calf, but giving very little milk’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk > that gives little milk strapper1777 stripper1856 1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 i. 266 The cows which I buy as strippers, for fattening, giving little milk. 1917 L. A. Klein Princ. & Pract. Milk Hygiene i. 5 Cows in which lactation is about to cease are called ‘strippers’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019). strippern.3 Oil Industry. More fully, stripper well. An oil well in which production has dwindled to only a few barrels a day. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well well1652 spouting well1776 petroleum well1801 rock well1830 oil well1859 spouter1865 gusher1876 test well1877 wild cat1877 wildcat well1883 roarera1885 oiler1890 discovery1900 edge well1904 wild well1915 offset well1922 stripper1930 offset1933 production well1934 outstep1947 step-out well1948 1930 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 18 Dec. 48/2 The proration committee is working out a plan safeguarding the interest of operators owning small and shallow producing wells... Nothing will be done that might cause the abandonment of the stripper wells. 1931 Oil & Gaz Jrnl. 8 Jan. 26/1 There would apparently be nothing to do but to abandon these old strippers as having exceeded their useful life. 1976 Watertown (S. Dakota) Public Opinion 6 July 7/5 Throughout the United States marginally productive oil wells known as ‘strippers’ account for more than 13 percent of domestic production. 1980 Fortune 24 Mar. 64/1 Independents will also get a break on oil from ‘stripper’ wells, which produce ten or fewer barrels a day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11581n.21856n.31930 |
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