(strip) noun
1. A narrow piece, comparatively long, as of cloth, wood, etc.
2. A number of stamps attached in a row.
3. A narrow piece of land; a minor civil division in Maine.
4. An act of destruction or spoliation.
5. A comic strip.
—Cherokee strip A strip of land formerly leased to the Cherokee Indians but now part of Oklahoma.
—v.t. stripped, strip·ping To cut or tear into strips. [? <MLG strippe a strap]

(strip) v. stripped (Rare stript), strip·ping v.t.
1. To pull the covering, clothing, etc., from; denude; lay bare.
2. To pull off (the covering or clothing).
3. To rob or plunder; spoil.
4. To make bare or empty.
5. To remove; take away.
6. To deprive of something; divest: He was stripped of his rank.
7. To separate the leaves of (tobacco) from the stalks.
8. To milk (a cow) dry by a downward stroke and compression of the thumb and forefinger.
9. Mech. To damage or break the teeth, thread, etc., of (a gear, bolt, or the like).
—v.i.
10. To remove one's clothing; undress.
11. Mech. To suffer breaking or jamming of the teeth or thread. [ME <OE -strӯpan, as in bestrӯpan despoil, plunder]