strippingn.¹

/ˈstrɪpɪŋ/

Etymology: -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of strip v.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > [noun]

stripping1398

unclothing1572

doffing1606

divesture1631

undressing1677

disrobement1747

disrobing1813

divestiture1820

peeling1832

divestment1854

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun]

discoveringa1375

stripping1398

unheling1398

uncovering1495

discovery1610

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lxiv. 182 And that matere chaungyth and enfectith the skynne somtyme wyth scales..and somtyme wyth strippynge and pillynge.

a1400–50 Wars Alex. (Dublin) 781 What of stampyng of stedes & strippyng of baners, All demmyd þe dale & þe duste risez.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 480/1 Stryppynge, or makynge [read nakynge],..denudacio.

1654 W. Jenkyn Shock of Corn 14 He who looks upon himself as possessing nothing in the world, fears not a stripping by death.

1713 J. Addison in Guardian 16 July 1/1 Having put a seasonable Stop to this unaccountable Humour of Stripping, that was got among our British Ladies.

1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 76 As this spiral stripping of the blubber goes on, the body [of the whale] is kept turning.

1847 E. Gurney Let. 18 Sept. in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys (1895) II. xv. 252 This further stripping has afresh caused me to feel that ‘I am bereaved’, that life will soon contain but very few to bind me to it.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 712 The pia [mater] on stripping is found to adhere to the cerebral cortex.

1952 W. H. Kirk Sewell's Dogs & their Managem. (rev. ed.) iv. 76 Proper trimming or stripping is a long, tedious, and continuous work.

1974 R. Rendell Face of Trespass xiv. 134 Mr Greenberg doesn't have a surgery on Saturday afternoons... We're only open for clipping and stripping.

b. In technical senses.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > [noun] > process in making file

stripping1837

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > violently or tearing off

avulsion1622

discerption1699

stripping1853

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

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > process involving liquid > specific

Burnettizing1885

stripping1886

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > oil refining or separating processes > [noun]

re-refining1864

cracking1868

stripping1922

sweetening1924

Platforming1949

Powerforming1956

steam cracking1959

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > ion > ionization > [noun] > depriving (atom or ion) of electron

stripping1943

society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] > making plates > mounting copy for

stripping1949

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 135 In the stripping our foremast, we were alarmed by discovering it was sprung.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 226 [article File Maker] To prepare the files for cutting, is by making the surface to contain the teeth as level as possible; this process is called ‘stripping’.

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 697 Interruptions occurred several times a day by the stripping of the main cylinder.

1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) viii. 54 The ore is got out by a kind of long-wall method called ‘stripping’.

1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 252 It is usually the practice to remove what silver there may be upon old plated articles by the process termed ‘stripping’. This consists in immersing the article in a hot acid liquid.

1922 D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry II. 324 Stripping may be held to mean a complete removal of all light fractions down to those of lubricating value, and represents the initial refining process.

1943 Ann. Reg. 1942 364 Saha..suggested that both the stripping of the atoms and their high velocities are due to a nuclear reaction analogous to fission.

1949 D. Melcher & N. Larrick Printing & Promotion Handbk. 283/2 When two or more photographic negatives are used together to make one printing plate, the process of combining them is known as ‘stripping’.

1955 R. E. Treybal Mass-transfer Operations i. 3 If air is brought into contact with an ammonia-water solution, some of the ammonia leaves the liquid and enters the gas phase, an operation known as desorption or stripping.

1972 Physics Bull. Mar. 145/1 After stripping the nitrogen ions..will behave like deuterons or alpha particles in the injection channel into the synchrotron.

1977 L. Vályi Atom & Ion Sources iv. 251 An alternative method for the production of multiply charged ions is the stripping of electrons in the interaction of singly charged positive ions.

1980 J. R. Walker Graphic Arts Fund. vi. 116/1 (caption) Light table makes good work surface for stripping.

2. concrete. Something stripped off or taken off in a thin layer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin piece shaved or stripped off

shavingc1386

stripping1601

shave1725

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > torn off > torn strip(s)

stripping1601

targeta1774

rata1796

in ribbons1820

flinders1869

1601 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 288 He [the yeoman of the Boyling House] hath for his fee the strippinges of beefe.

1835 R. Browning Paracelsus v. 180 And now the air is full of up-torn canes, Like strippings from the fan-trees.

1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 315 The layers of gravel passed through by the shafts in reaching the mantas or rich streaks are cast aside as of no value, and the surface of a Mexican placer is covered with heaps of these ‘strippings’.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 245 Stripping, a web of coal worked off all along the face of a stall.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (Chiefly technical.)

stripping-acid n.

ΚΠ

1905 P. N. Hasluck Electro-plating 141 The stripping acid is composed of sulphuric acid, nitric acid, and water.

stripping agent n.

ΚΠ

1958 M. G. Larian Fund. Chem. Engin. Operations xiii. 495 In desorption dissolved gases are removed from a liquid by contacting the liquid with a suitable gas (the desorbing or stripping agent), or a volatile liquid is separated from a relatively nonvolatile solvent.

stripping-bath n.

ΚΠ

1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 252 A stripping-bath [for silver] is first made by pouring a sufficient quantity of strong oil of vitriol into a suitable stoneware vessel... To this must be added a small quantity of either nitrate of potash, or nitrate of soda.

stripping bench n.

ΚΠ

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 51 A stripping bench, layout and lining tables are essential... The former provides the illuminated working surface on which the various images can be positioned.

stripping cement n.

ΚΠ

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 50 With face-up stripping a stripping cement is first applied to the base support.

stripping column n.

ΚΠ

1930 H. S. Bell Amer. Petroleum Refining (ed. 2) xii. 222 If withdrawn as a finished product, the light ends must be removed and this is usually accomplished in a separate small stripping column.

stripping desk n.

ΚΠ

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 55 (caption) Bench-type illuminated stripping desk.

stripping foil n.

ΚΠ

1972 Physics Bull. Mar. 144/3 An aluminium stripping foil of density 40 μg cm⁻² was therefore used at the high energy end of the Linac to convert the particles to ¹⁴N⁷⁺.

stripping-liquid n.

ΚΠ

1846 Mechanics' Mag. 45 260/2 Silversmiths remove silver from copper by immersing the plated article in stripping liquid, made of eight parts sulphuric acid and one part nitrate of potash.

stripping operation n.

ΚΠ

1948 R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures viii. 232 (heading) The stripping operation.

1980 J. R. Walker Graphic Arts Fund. vi. 116/2 (caption) Stripping operations require sharp knives, scissors and brushes for opaquing pinholes.

stripping-solution n.

ΚΠ

1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 253 A Cold Stripping Solution,..is made by [etc.].

stripping still n.

ΚΠ

1931 Hoffert & Claxton Motor Benzole viii. 225 The function of a modern stripping still is to remove the remaining benzole from the hot oil leaving the preheater.

C2.

stripping-bill n. (also stripping-bille) a bladed implement or bill used in besom-making.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > others

ripper1659

Mohock1721

pinking iron1761

stock knife1799

sapper1822

ice plough1830

race knife1832

dresser1860

race-tool1867

pen-maker1875

stone-cutter1875

twinning-machine1875

nail cutter1876

paper cutter1880

guillotine1883

miller1890

flaker1891

undercutter1891

race1904

lino-cutter1907

gang mower1917

go-devil1918

rotary cutter1936

stripping-bill1968

fragmentizer1972

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts v. 97 The cuttings are prepared for use with chopping and stripping-billes for the coarse and finer work.

1974 P. W. Blandford Country Craft Tools ii. 38 The besom broom maker called his general-purpose tool a ‘chopping bill’ and had a lighter one with more curve to the point called ‘stripping bill’.

stripping-coat n. a coating of solvent used on the edges of double waterproof fabric in order to separate them for making a seam.

ΚΠ

1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 7/2 Such coatings are specially designated ‘stripping-coats’.

stripping-film n. a photographic ‘plate’ having a film which may be separated from its support after exposure.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > plate > types of

screen plate1843

whole plate1850

quarter-plate1854

wet plate1859

stripping-film1885

gelatin dry plate1890

panchromatic1906

1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 395 Stripping films.

stripping-knife n. (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) a knife used in the stripping of wallpaper or paint from surfaces.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives

bollock knifec1400

paring knife1415

spudc1440

pricking-knifec1500

shaving-knife1530–1

by-knifec1570

heading knife1574

stock knife1582

drawing knife1583

bung-knife1592

weeding knife1598

drawing knife1610

heading knife1615

draw knife1679

dressing knife1683

redishing knife1688

mocotaugan1716

skinning knife1767

paper knife1789

draw shave1824

leaf-cutter1828

piece-knife1833

nut-pick1851

relic knife1854

butch1859

straw-knife1862

sportsman's companion1863

ulu1864

skinner1872

hacker1875

over-shave1875

stripping-knife1875

Stanley knife1878

flat-back1888

gauge-knife1888

tine-knife1888

plough1899

band-knife1926

X-Acto1943

shank1953

box cutter1955

ratchet knife1966

ratchet1975

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stripping-knife, a tool for removing the blades of sorghum from the stalks, previous to grinding.

1927 W. Deeping Kitty xx. 254 I could lend you a plank and a couple of step-ladders, and a stripping-knife.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 210/1 A paper-hanger's stripping knife, which is a flat, fairly flexible, steel-bladed knife.

† stripping law n. Obsolete the ‘art’ of fleecing prisoners as practised by jailers (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > fleecing > fleecing prisoners

stripping law1592

1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D The stripping Lawe, wherein I will lay open the lewde abuses of sundry Iaylors in England.

1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. F2^v The stripping law..is the abuse offred by the keepers of Newgate to poore prisoners.

stripping-table n. Electrotyping a heated iron table on which the wax mould is melted away from the copper shell formed on it.

ΚΠ

1904 Electr. World & Engineer 9 Jan. 85 After the cases have been used to make electrotype shells, they are put upon the stripping tables which melt the wax.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	stripping
释义	strippingn.¹ /ˈstrɪpɪŋ/ Etymology: -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of strip v.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > [noun] stripping1398 unclothing1572 doffing1606 divesture1631 undressing1677 disrobement1747 disrobing1813 divestiture1820 peeling1832 divestment1854 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] discoveringa1375 stripping1398 unheling1398 uncovering1495 discovery1610 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lxiv. 182 And that matere chaungyth and enfectith the skynne somtyme wyth scales..and somtyme wyth strippynge and pillynge. a1400–50 Wars Alex. (Dublin) 781 What of stampyng of stedes & strippyng of baners, All demmyd þe dale & þe duste risez. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 480/1 Stryppynge, or makynge [read nakynge],..denudacio. 1654 W. Jenkyn Shock of Corn 14 He who looks upon himself as possessing nothing in the world, fears not a stripping by death. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 16 July 1/1 Having put a seasonable Stop to this unaccountable Humour of Stripping, that was got among our British Ladies. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 76 As this spiral stripping of the blubber goes on, the body [of the whale] is kept turning. 1847 E. Gurney Let. 18 Sept. in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys (1895) II. xv. 252 This further stripping has afresh caused me to feel that ‘I am bereaved’, that life will soon contain but very few to bind me to it. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 712 The pia [mater] on stripping is found to adhere to the cerebral cortex. 1952 W. H. Kirk Sewell's Dogs & their Managem. (rev. ed.) iv. 76 Proper trimming or stripping is a long, tedious, and continuous work. 1974 R. Rendell Face of Trespass xiv. 134 Mr Greenberg doesn't have a surgery on Saturday afternoons... We're only open for clipping and stripping. b. In technical senses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > [noun] > process in making file stripping1837 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > violently or tearing off avulsion1622 discerption1699 stripping1853 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 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > process involving liquid > specific Burnettizing1885 stripping1886 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > oil refining or separating processes > [noun] re-refining1864 cracking1868 stripping1922 sweetening1924 Platforming1949 Powerforming1956 steam cracking1959 the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > ion > ionization > [noun] > depriving (atom or ion) of electron stripping1943 society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] > making plates > mounting copy for stripping1949 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 135 In the stripping our foremast, we were alarmed by discovering it was sprung. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 226 [article File Maker] To prepare the files for cutting, is by making the surface to contain the teeth as level as possible; this process is called ‘stripping’. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 697 Interruptions occurred several times a day by the stripping of the main cylinder. 1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) viii. 54 The ore is got out by a kind of long-wall method called ‘stripping’. 1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 252 It is usually the practice to remove what silver there may be upon old plated articles by the process termed ‘stripping’. This consists in immersing the article in a hot acid liquid. 1922 D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry II. 324 Stripping may be held to mean a complete removal of all light fractions down to those of lubricating value, and represents the initial refining process. 1943 Ann. Reg. 1942 364 Saha..suggested that both the stripping of the atoms and their high velocities are due to a nuclear reaction analogous to fission. 1949 D. Melcher & N. Larrick Printing & Promotion Handbk. 283/2 When two or more photographic negatives are used together to make one printing plate, the process of combining them is known as ‘stripping’. 1955 R. E. Treybal Mass-transfer Operations i. 3 If air is brought into contact with an ammonia-water solution, some of the ammonia leaves the liquid and enters the gas phase, an operation known as desorption or stripping. 1972 Physics Bull. Mar. 145/1 After stripping the nitrogen ions..will behave like deuterons or alpha particles in the injection channel into the synchrotron. 1977 L. Vályi Atom & Ion Sources iv. 251 An alternative method for the production of multiply charged ions is the stripping of electrons in the interaction of singly charged positive ions. 1980 J. R. Walker Graphic Arts Fund. vi. 116/1 (caption) Light table makes good work surface for stripping. 2. concrete. Something stripped off or taken off in a thin layer. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin piece shaved or stripped off shavingc1386 stripping1601 shave1725 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > torn off > torn strip(s) stripping1601 targeta1774 rata1796 in ribbons1820 flinders1869 1601 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 288 He [the yeoman of the Boyling House] hath for his fee the strippinges of beefe. 1835 R. Browning Paracelsus v. 180 And now the air is full of up-torn canes, Like strippings from the fan-trees. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 315 The layers of gravel passed through by the shafts in reaching the mantas or rich streaks are cast aside as of no value, and the surface of a Mexican placer is covered with heaps of these ‘strippings’. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 245 Stripping, a web of coal worked off all along the face of a stall. Compounds C1. General attributive. (Chiefly technical.) stripping-acid n. ΚΠ 1905 P. N. Hasluck Electro-plating 141 The stripping acid is composed of sulphuric acid, nitric acid, and water. stripping agent n. ΚΠ 1958 M. G. Larian Fund. Chem. Engin. Operations xiii. 495 In desorption dissolved gases are removed from a liquid by contacting the liquid with a suitable gas (the desorbing or stripping agent), or a volatile liquid is separated from a relatively nonvolatile solvent. stripping-bath n. ΚΠ 1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 252 A stripping-bath [for silver] is first made by pouring a sufficient quantity of strong oil of vitriol into a suitable stoneware vessel... To this must be added a small quantity of either nitrate of potash, or nitrate of soda. stripping bench n. ΚΠ 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 51 A stripping bench, layout and lining tables are essential... The former provides the illuminated working surface on which the various images can be positioned. stripping cement n. ΚΠ 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 50 With face-up stripping a stripping cement is first applied to the base support. stripping column n. ΚΠ 1930 H. S. Bell Amer. Petroleum Refining (ed. 2) xii. 222 If withdrawn as a finished product, the light ends must be removed and this is usually accomplished in a separate small stripping column. stripping desk n. ΚΠ 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 55 (caption) Bench-type illuminated stripping desk. stripping foil n. ΚΠ 1972 Physics Bull. Mar. 144/3 An aluminium stripping foil of density 40 μg cm⁻² was therefore used at the high energy end of the Linac to convert the particles to ¹⁴N⁷⁺. stripping-liquid n. ΚΠ 1846 Mechanics' Mag. 45 260/2 Silversmiths remove silver from copper by immersing the plated article in stripping liquid, made of eight parts sulphuric acid and one part nitrate of potash. stripping operation n. ΚΠ 1948 R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures viii. 232 (heading) The stripping operation. 1980 J. R. Walker Graphic Arts Fund. vi. 116/2 (caption) Stripping operations require sharp knives, scissors and brushes for opaquing pinholes. stripping-solution n. ΚΠ 1886 A. Watt Electro-deposition 253 A Cold Stripping Solution,..is made by [etc.]. stripping still n. ΚΠ 1931 Hoffert & Claxton Motor Benzole viii. 225 The function of a modern stripping still is to remove the remaining benzole from the hot oil leaving the preheater. C2. stripping-bill n. (also stripping-bille) a bladed implement or bill used in besom-making. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > others ripper1659 Mohock1721 pinking iron1761 stock knife1799 sapper1822 ice plough1830 race knife1832 dresser1860 race-tool1867 pen-maker1875 stone-cutter1875 twinning-machine1875 nail cutter1876 paper cutter1880 guillotine1883 miller1890 flaker1891 undercutter1891 race1904 lino-cutter1907 gang mower1917 go-devil1918 rotary cutter1936 stripping-bill1968 fragmentizer1972 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts v. 97 The cuttings are prepared for use with chopping and stripping-billes for the coarse and finer work. 1974 P. W. Blandford Country Craft Tools ii. 38 The besom broom maker called his general-purpose tool a ‘chopping bill’ and had a lighter one with more curve to the point called ‘stripping bill’. stripping-coat n. a coating of solvent used on the edges of double waterproof fabric in order to separate them for making a seam. ΚΠ 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 7/2 Such coatings are specially designated ‘stripping-coats’. stripping-film n. a photographic ‘plate’ having a film which may be separated from its support after exposure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > plate > types of screen plate1843 whole plate1850 quarter-plate1854 wet plate1859 stripping-film1885 gelatin dry plate1890 panchromatic1906 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 395 Stripping films. stripping-knife n. (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) a knife used in the stripping of wallpaper or paint from surfaces. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives bollock knifec1400 paring knife1415 spudc1440 pricking-knifec1500 shaving-knife1530–1 by-knifec1570 heading knife1574 stock knife1582 drawing knife1583 bung-knife1592 weeding knife1598 drawing knife1610 heading knife1615 draw knife1679 dressing knife1683 redishing knife1688 mocotaugan1716 skinning knife1767 paper knife1789 draw shave1824 leaf-cutter1828 piece-knife1833 nut-pick1851 relic knife1854 butch1859 straw-knife1862 sportsman's companion1863 ulu1864 skinner1872 hacker1875 over-shave1875 stripping-knife1875 Stanley knife1878 flat-back1888 gauge-knife1888 tine-knife1888 plough1899 band-knife1926 X-Acto1943 shank1953 box cutter1955 ratchet knife1966 ratchet1975 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stripping-knife, a tool for removing the blades of sorghum from the stalks, previous to grinding. 1927 W. Deeping Kitty xx. 254 I could lend you a plank and a couple of step-ladders, and a stripping-knife. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 210/1 A paper-hanger's stripping knife, which is a flat, fairly flexible, steel-bladed knife. † stripping law n. Obsolete the ‘art’ of fleecing prisoners as practised by jailers (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > fleecing > fleecing prisoners stripping law1592 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D The stripping Lawe, wherein I will lay open the lewde abuses of sundry Iaylors in England. 1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. F2^v The stripping law..is the abuse offred by the keepers of Newgate to poore prisoners. stripping-table n. Electrotyping a heated iron table on which the wax mould is melted away from the copper shell formed on it. ΚΠ 1904 Electr. World & Engineer 9 Jan. 85 After the cases have been used to make electrotype shells, they are put upon the stripping tables which melt the wax. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021). strippingn.² /ˈstrɪpɪŋ/ Etymology: < strip v.³ + -ing suffix¹. a. The action of strip v.³ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > extracting roe stripping1895 1895 F. M. Halford Making a Fishery 194 Finding that she [the female fish] was not quite ripe for stripping he turned her on to a shallow. 1899 19th Cent. Sept. 399 The ‘stripping’ of the shad by the hatchery officials had only terminated the previous week. b. concrete (plural) = stroking n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > last drainings strokings1602 streakings1658 afterings1688 stripping1781 strapping1806 jibbings1824 hind milk1895 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 97 Stripings, the last part of a cow's milk. 1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 145 I was doubtful of the accuracy of my own dairy, which stated a pound of butter to eight quarts of strippings. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 459 That which comes last, the afterings or strippings, as it is commonly called, is much the richer part of new milk. Compounds stripping cow n. a cow which is going dry and requires to be ‘stripped’ in milking. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk > that is going dry stropper1707 strop milch cow1781 stripping cow1894 1894 Times 16 Apr. 4/4 Irish store cattle, consisting chiefly of heifers and stripping cows, continue to be imported. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019). strippingn.³ : see strip v.⁴ Draft additions 1993 1. The action of strip v.⁴ Additions 2. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun] > cutting into strips or slivers randing1725 slivering1875 stripping1885 1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap 200 After stripping, the soap is frequently dried somewhat, and it is then passed through the mill. 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’. 2. The broadcasting of a serial programme daily at the same time. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > broadcast of a serial programme strip1969 stripping1975 1975 Broadcasting 15 Sept. 52/2 It's a day-time series..now sold to over 40 television stations for stripping five days a week. 1987 Daily Tel. 29 July 12/6 ‘Stripping’ is a useful way of trying to make sure that viewers stay with us. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019). strippingadj. /ˈstrɪpɪŋ/ Etymology: < strip v.¹ + -ing suffix². That strips, in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripping or making bare barbing1630 denuding1639 stripping1681 denudatory1845 denudating1849 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 7 Be sure that they be lew'd drunken stripping Whores. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 27 July 1/2 At a late Meeting of the Stripping-Ladies,..it was resolved for the future to lay the Modesty-piece wholly aside. 1809 M. Titherington Diary in Mem. 91 In the course of Christian experience we pass through such stripping times. 1913 Masefield in Eng. Rev. Dec. 1 Till with a stripping crash the tree goes down. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmas ˈstripping ˈstripping n.³ also attributive. ΘΚΠ 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.’ extracted from stripv.⁴ < n.¹1398n.²1781n.³1885adj.1681 as lemmas
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