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." "They stripped Joseph out of his coat." "Opinions which... no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown."
2.To divest of clothing; to uncover. "Before the folk herself strippeth she." "Strip your sword stark naked."
3.(Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
4.(Agric.) 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." "Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him."
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."
9.To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
10.(Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
11.To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
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