To pull or tear off, as a covering; 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 deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.

To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare.

To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.

To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.

To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.

To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.

To press out the last milk at a milking.

To unrig; as, to strip a ship.

To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface. To strip off,

To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.

To cast off.

To separate from something connected.

A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.

Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber.