Word Meaning

Meaning of "strip" and the crossword clue

- Denude
- Disrobe
- Football kit
- In reverse, prioritise every second band
- Narrow band
- Piece
- Remove clothes
- Remove covering
- Take off on first safari journey
- Undress
- Way to tear long piece
- 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.