Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Strip \Strip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stripped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stripping}.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str?pan in bestr?pan
   to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]
   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. (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.
                                                  --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. (Mach.)
      (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the
          thread is stripped.
      (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the
          bolt is stripped.

   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).

Stripping \Strip"ping\, n.
   1. The act of one who strips.

            The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of
            the original prostrations and strippings of the
            captive.                              --H. Spencer.

            Never were cows that required such stripping. --Mrs.
                                                  Gaskell.

   2. pl. The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.

Source : WordNet®

strip
     n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat
          strip of muscle"
     2: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn:
         {slip}]
     3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: {airstrip},
         {flight strip}, {landing strip}]
     4: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or
        comic book [syn: {comic strip}, {cartoon strip}]
     5: thin piece of wood or metal
     6: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually
        undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of
        everyone" [syn: {striptease}, {strip show}]
     [also: {stripping}, {stripped}]

strip
     v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
          Jews of all their assets" [syn: {deprive}, {divest}]
     2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
        everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night
        for a living" [syn: {undress}, {discase}, {uncase}, {unclothe},
         {strip down}, {disrobe}, {peel}] [ant: {dress}, {dress}]
     3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
     4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
        soil" [syn: {leach}]
     5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: {denude}, {bare}, {denudate}]
     6: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
        looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
        [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {rifle}, {ransack},
         {pillage}, {foray}]
     7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
        "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were
        cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: {clean}]
     8: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
     9: remove the thread (of screws)
     10: remove a constituent from a liquid
     11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: {dismantle}]
     12: draw the last milk (of cows)
     13: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly
         undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of
         her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his
         garments" [syn: {undress}, {divest}, {disinvest}]
     [also: {stripping}, {stripped}]

stripping
     n : the removal of covering [syn: {denudation}, {uncovering}, {baring},
          {husking}]

stripping
     See {strip}