Strip

1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
2. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
3. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
4. To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
5. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
6. 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.
7. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
8. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
9. A trough for washing ore.
10. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
14. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
15. To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
16. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
17. To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.