Obs. Also 5 strype, 6 strippe. [Proximate origin obscure; f. Teut. root *strĭp-: see STRIPE sb.3]
1. intr. To move or pass swiftly.
c. 1400. Rowland & O., 560. And other stroke he to hym bere, And Doun by-fore hym it strypes there, his schelde a waye it reuede.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse, F 1 b. The swiftest Hound, when he is hallowed, strippes forth.
1616. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iii. 119. Th’ Eagle … To countries farre remote would bend her flight, And with vnwearied wing strip through the skie. Ibid., II. v. 905. As the Westerne side shee stript along.
2. trans. To pass or surpass in running, flying, etc.; to pass by in travelling: = OUTSTRIP v. (recorded from 1580).
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, I. i. 4. Alate we ran the deere, and through the Lawndes Stript with our nagges the loftie frolicke bucks.
1605[?]. Drayton, Poems Lyr. & Past., Man in Moone, H 7 b. She … calls downe the Dragons that her chariot drawe, and … mounteth thereon, in twinkling of an ey stripping the winds.
1613. Beaum. & Fl., Honest Man’s Fort., I. i. Before he reacht it, he was out of breath, And then the other stript him.
c. 1624. Chapman, Hymn to Apollo, 641. When first, they stript the Maleane Promont’rie: Toucht at Laconias soile, [etc.].
1774. Ann. Reg., Poetry, 211. But mark the beauteous Antelope!… he strips the wind, And leaves them lagging, panting, far behind.
