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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1039 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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STRIP , to remove or See also:

TEAR

tear off the See also:

OUTER

outer covering of anything, hence to rob or See also:

PLUNDER

plunder; also a narrow See also:

long piece of stuff or material, or a See also:

mark or See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division narrow in proportion to its length distinguished from its ground or surroundings by See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour or other variation of texture, See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, &c.; a stripe; this last word is a variant of "strip," a particular meaning, that of a stroke or lash of a See also:

WHIP

whip, is either due to the See also:

ORIGINAL

original meaning of " strip," to flay, or to the long narrow mark or wheal See also:

LEFT

left by a See also:

BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow. The O. Eng. strypan, to strip, is cognate with Du. stroopen, Ger. streifen, and the See also:

root is possibly seen in " strike," See also:

LAT

Lat. stringere. " To strip " has many technical meanings, e.g. to See also:

SEPARATE

separate the See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco See also:

LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf from the stems, to remove the over-lying See also:

SOIL

soil from a See also:

MINERAL

mineral See also:

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit before opening and working it, to turn a See also:

GUN

gun-See also:

BARREL (a word of uncertain origin common to Romance languages; the Celtic forms, as in the Gaelic baraill, are derived from the English)

barrel in a See also:

LATHE

lathe, &c. In See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a " strip See also:

PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a pillar)

pilaster " is a narrow pilaster such as is found in Saxon See also:

WORK

work and in the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian Romanesque churches. " Stripling," a youth, is apparently a diminutive of " strip," in the sense of a See also:

young growing lad.

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