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