Law. Now only U.S. Forms: 6 stripe, stryppe, strepe, 7– strip. [a. AF. estrepe, vbl. noun f. estreper ESTREPE v.] = ESTREPEMENT.
1516. in 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1876), 596/2. Jone my wyffe schalle make no stryppe ner waste in fellyng of tymbyr.
15[?]. Modus tenend. Cur. Baron (W. de W.), A 4. Yf ye knowe that ony tenaunt haue made ony strepe or waast vpon his bonde tenement. Strepe is to saye pullynge vp of trees or hedges, waste is to saye late houses fall downe for defaute of reperacyon.
1559. Boke Presidentes, 30. N. … shall haue … necessarie firebote, hedge bote [etc.]… duryng the sayd term, without stripe or wast.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, Isa. vii. 20. In that day, the Lord shall by the hand of the Assyrians … make utter strip, & waste of Judah.
1662. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., III. verse 17. lx. [lxi.] 539. ’Tis too bad if the tenant pays not his easie rent, but to make strip and waste of the trees on his Land-lords ground, this is more intolerable.
1682. trans. Charter of Cinque Ports, 138. Strip or Estrepement is a Writ for taking Lands from him that strips and spoils them.
1701. in Charters & Gen. Laws Massachusetts (1814), 361. No woman that shall be endowed of any lands … as aforesaid, shall commit or suffer any strip or waste thereupon, but [etc.].
1891. Century Dict., Strip, destruction of fences, timber, etc.; waste. (U.S.)
