[var. of STRIP v.3]
1. trans. To thrust or draw (a thing, esp. a sword in order to cleanse or sharpen it) through, over. Sc. and north. Cf. STROKE v.1 2.
17[?]. Clark Sanders, xv. in Child, Ballads, II. 159/1. Out he has taen a bright long brand, And he has striped it throw the straw.
17[?]. Johnny Scott, xxviii. Ibid., 396/2. He’s taen his broadsword in his hand, And stripd it oer a stane.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, v. 44. Wat, bending a little forward in his saddle and striping one long gauntlet glove lightly through the palm of the other hand.
† 2. To draw the edge of an instrument sideways over (a surface). Obs.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farm, I. xxviii. 132. Another Groome shall take a piece of a Sword blade,… and … he shall with the edge strype and wype downe the Horse.
