Also 6 stryppe; pa. t. 6 stripped; pa. pple. 6 stripped, 7 stript. [f. STRIPE sb.3 (in early examples perh. f. STRIP sb.1)
It is possible that STRIPED a. may have been early adopted from LG. or Du., and that the verb is a back-formation.]
1. trans. To ornament (cloth, a garment) with narrow pieces of material or with stripes of color.
In quot. 1471 perh. ‘to border’: cf. STRIP sb.1 1.
1471. Paston Lett., Suppl. (1901), 140. I pray zow that the welvet that levyt of my typet may be send hom a geyn, for I woold strype a dobelet ther with.
1547. in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 13. viij pere sloppes of changeable Taffita stripyd vpon with blewe golde dornix.
1558. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 20. Redd cloth of gold with Roses and Scallope shells stripped down.
1583. Rates Custom Ho., A viij b. Canuas striped with silk.
1611. Cotgr., Brocar, satin stript, or purfled, with gold.
1621. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1906), 235. Some stript with blew for napkininge.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 25 May, 4/2. A galloon effect, contrived either by tucking a strip of muslin or by striping a strip of muslin over with bars of narrow satin ribbon.
2. To mark with a narrow band or with bands of color; to mark with alternate stripes of color.
a. Nat. Hist. In pa. pple. Const. † in, with.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 31/4. Those [leeches] which have the backe stripped, stroked with gouldeyellow strokes.
1645. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. (Grosart), II. 51. A goodly Tulip, Stript In Gold and Purple.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 184. The Girafe striped with white and red.
1859. Darwin, Orig. Spec., v. 165. I once saw a mule with its legs so much striped that [etc.].
b. gen.
1842. Tennyson, Morte d’Arth., 212. She … call’d him by his name, complaining loud, And dropping bitter tears against his brow Striped with dark blood.
1875. O. C. Stone, in Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc., XLVI. 58. An heroic deed entitles a man to the distinguished privilege of striping his forehead.
1895. Kipling, 2nd Jungle Bk., 209. As the sun rose they [sc. the morning mists] … churned off and let the low rays stripe the dried grass.
1908. Nation, 13 June, 374/1. Her husband stripes a toy canoe with red and black to please the fishing-spirit.
c. intr. Of a plant: To become variegated. Also trans. To produce variegation in (a plant).
1725. Bradley’s Family Dict., s.v. Stripe, Cions of the Spanish Jessamine, whose Leaves had not been known to Stripe.
1731. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Variegated, But whatever some Persons have affirm’d of striping Plants by Art, I could never observe it done by any.
3. To finish (a surface) with grooves or ridges (see quots.). Also absol.
1842. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Droved and striped. Work [in masonry] that is first droved and then striped. The stripes are shallow grooves done with a … chisel.
1882. W. J. Christy, Joints, 206. Very coarse solder … would set quickly and be porous were it not glazed over by striping or overcasting.
† 4. intr. ? To form a stripe. Obs.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., I. 40. The breadth in the planure is narrow, but stripeth larger among the hills and lakes.
5. trans. To divide (land) into strips or plots. Anglo-Irish. Cf. STRIPE sb.3 6 b.
1882. Bagenal, in 19th Cent., Dec., 927. [The Irish tenant] stripes the worst and wildest portion and lets it out to the labourers.
1886. Daily News, 13 Dec., 5/8. About 52 years ago the land reclaimed by their industry was striped, or apportioned, out among the tenants separately.
