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STRIP , to remove or See also:tear off the See also:outer covering of anything, hence to rob or See also:plunder; also a narrow See also:long piece of stuff or material, or a See also:mark or See also:division narrow in proportion to its length distinguished from its ground or surroundings by See also:colour or other variation of texture, See also:character, &c.; a stripe; this last word is a variant of "strip," a particular meaning, that of a stroke or lash of a See also:whip, is either due to the See also:original meaning of " strip," to flay, or to the long narrow mark or wheal See also:left by a See also:blow . The O . Eng. strypan, to strip, is cognate with Du. stroopen, Ger. streifen, and the See also:root is possibly seen in " strike," See also:Lat. stringere . " To strip " has many technical meanings, e.g. to See also:separate the See also:tobacco See also:leaf from the stems, to remove the over-lying See also:soil from a See also:mineral See also:deposit before opening and working it, to turn a See also:gun-See also:barrel in a See also:lathe, &c . In See also:architecture, a " strip See also:pilaster " is a narrow pilaster such as is found in Saxon See also:work and in the See also:Italian Romanesque churches . " Stripling," a youth, is apparently a diminutive of " strip," in the sense of a See also:young growing lad . |
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