What does "strip" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.
2. 3.(Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
3. 4.(Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
4. 5.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.
5. 6.To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. Beau. & Fl.
6. 7.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. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. Gilpin.
7. 8.(Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
8. 9.To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
9. 10.(Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
10. 11.To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
11. 12.To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
12. 13.(Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
13. 14.A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
14. 15.(Mining) A trough for washing ore.
15. 16.(Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.