strip

strip is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array. Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.

[2] To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

[3] To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

[4] To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

[5] To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

[6] To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. Beau. & Fl.

[7] To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man`s back; to strip away all disguisses. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. Gilpin.

[8] To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

[9] To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

[10] To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

[11] To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

[12] To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).