Strip

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

(2): ( v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

(3): ( v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

(4): ( v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

(5): ( n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

(6): ( v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; - said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

(7): ( v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

(8): ( v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

(9): ( v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

(10): ( v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.

(11): ( v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.

(12): ( n.) A trough for washing ore.

(13): ( n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

(14): ( v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

(15): ( v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

(16): ( v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

(17): ( v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

King James Dictionary

Strip, G., to strip, to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. L.

1. To pull or tear off, as a covering as, to strip the skin from a beast to strip the bark from a tree to strip the clothes from a mans back. 2. To deprive of a covering to skin to peel as, to strip a beast of his skin to strip a tree of its bark to strip a man of his clothes. 3. To deprive to bereave to make destitute as, to strip a man of his possessions. 4. To divest as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare. 5. To rob to plunder as, robbers strip a house. 6. To bereave to deprive to impoverish as a man stripped of his fortune. 7. To deprive to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means as cattle strip the ground of its herbage. 8. To pull off husks to husk as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz. 9. To press out the last milk at a milking. 10. To unrig as, to strip a ship. 11. To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.

To strip off,

1. To pull or take off as, to strip off a covering to strip off a mask or disguise. 2. To cast off. Not in use. 3. To separate from something connected. Not in use.

We may observe the primary sense of this word is to peel or skin, hence to pull off in a long narrow piece hence stripe.

Strip, n. G., a stripe, a streak.

1. A narrow piece, comparatively long as a strip of cloth. 2. Waste, in a legal sense destruction of fences, buildings, timber, &c.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: ἐκδύω (Strong'S #1562 — Verb — ekduo — ek-doo'-o )

"to take off, strip off," is used especially of clothes, and rendered "to strip" in  Matthew 27:28 (some mss. have enduo, "to clothe"), and   Luke 10:30; to take off,  Matthew 27:31;  Mark 15:20; figuratively,  2 Corinthians 5:4 , "unclothed" (Middle Voice), of putting off the body at death (the believer's state of being unclothed does not refer to the body in the grave but to the spirit, which awaits the "body of glory" at the resurrection).