Strip

1. n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
4. v. t. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
5. v. t. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
6. v. t. 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.
7. v. t. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
8. v. t. 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.
9. v. t. To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
10. v. t. To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
11. 1n. 1 The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
12. 1v. t. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.