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The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface. You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean. Southey.

A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.

or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.

man's back; to strip away all disguisses. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. Gilpin.

One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.

See Stripping, 2. Smollett.

rk bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. "Each one, tripping on his toe." Shak.

vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

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The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. [Prov. Eng.]

iffer in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules. In Greco-Roman wrestling, tripping and taking hold of the legs are forbidden, and a fall is gained (that is, the bout is won), by the contestant who pins both his opponent's shoulders to the ground. In catch-as-catch-can wrestling, all holds are permitted…