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1. The action of STRIP v.1
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. lxiv. (1495), 182. And that matere chaungyth and enfectith the skynne somtyme wyth scales … and somtyme wyth strippynge and pillynge.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex. (Dubl. MS.), 781. What of stampyng of stedes & strippyng of baners, All demmyd þe dale & þe duste risez.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 480/1. Stryppynge, or makynge [read nakynge],… denudacio.
1653. W. Jenkyn, Shock of Corn (1654), 14. He who looks upon himself as possessing nothing in the world, fears not a stripping by death.
1713. Addison, Guardian, No. 109, ¶ 2. Having put a seasonable stop to this unaccountable humour of stripping, that was got among our British Ladies.
1845. J. Coulter, Adv. in Pacific, vii. 76. As this spiral stripping of the blubber goes on, the body [of the whale] is kept turning.
1847. Eliza Gurney, Lett., 18 Sept., in A. J. C. Hare, Gurneys (1895), II. xv. 252. This further stripping has afresh caused me to feel that ‘I am bereaved,’ that life will soon contain but very few to bind me to it.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 712. The pia [mater] on stripping is found to adhere to the cerebral cortex.
b. In technical senses.
1748. Anson’s Voy., II. ii. 135. In the stripping of our foremast, we were alarmed by discovering it was sprung.
1837. Whittock, Bk. Trades (1842), 226. (File Maker) To prepare the files for cutting, is by making the surface to contain the teeth as level as possible; this process is called ‘stripping.’
1853. Ure, Dict. Arts (ed. 4), II. 697. Interruptions occurred several times a day by the stripping of the main cylinder.
1875. J. H. Collins, Metal Mining, 54. The ore is got out by a kind of long-wall method called ‘stripping.’
1886. A. Watt, Eletro-Deposition, 252. It is usually the practice to remove what silver there may be upon old plated articles by the process termed s‘tripping.’ This consists in immersing the article in a hot acid liquid.
2. concr. Something stripped off or taken off in a thin layer.
1601. in Househ. Ord. (1790), 288. He [the yeoman of the Boyling House] hath for his fee the strippinges of beefe.
1835. Browning, Paracelsus, V. 486. And now the air is full of uptorn canes, Light strippings from the fan-trees.
1874. Raymond, 6th Rep. Mines, 315. The layers of gravel passed through by the shafts in reaching the mantas or rich streaks are cast aside as of no value, and the surface of a Mexican placer is covered with heaps of these ‘strippings.’
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, 245. Stripping, a web of coal worked off all along the face of a stall.
3. attrib. (chiefly technical), as stripping-acid, -bath, -liquid, -machine, -solution. Also stripping-coat, a coating of solvent used on the edges of double waterproof fabric in order to separate them for making a seam; stripping-film, a photographic ‘plate’ having a film that may be separated from its support after exposure; stripping-knife (see quot.); † stripping law, the ‘art’ of fleecing prisoners as practised by jailers (see quots.).
1905. Electro-plating (ed. P. N. Hasluck), 141. The *stripping acid is composed of sulphuric acid, nitric acid, and water.
1886. A. Watt, Electro-Deposition, 252. A *stripping-bath [for silver] is first made by pouring a sufficient quantity of strong oil of vitriol into a suitable stoneware vessel…. To this must be added a small quantity of either nitrate of potash, or nitrate of soda.
1885. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Rec., Ser. IV. 7/2. Such coatings are specially designated *‘stripping coats.’ Ibid., 395. *Stripping films.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., *Stripping-knife, a tool for removing the blades of sorghum from the stalks, previous to grinding.
1592. Greene, Disput. Conny Catchers, D 1. The *stripping Lawe, wherein I will lay open the lewde abuses of sundry Iaylors in England. Ibid. (1592), Def. Conny Catching, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 104. The stripping Law … is the abuse offered by the keepers of Newgate to poore prisoners.
1846. Mech. Mag., XLV. 260/2. Silversmiths remove silver from copper by immersing the plated article in *stripping liquid, made of eight parts sulphuric acid and one part nitrate of potash.
1898. *Stripping machine [see STRIP v.1 19].
1886. A. Watt, Eletro-Deposition, 253. A Cold *Stripping Solution,… is made by [etc.].
