单词 | to strip off |
释义 | > as lemmasto strip off a. To remove (an adhering covering of skin, bark, lead, paper, etc.); to pull off (leaves, fruit) from a tree, etc.; to remove (paint or varnish) from woodwork, etc. Also to strip off. Cf. stripped adj.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip off (a covering) shredc1000 tirvec1300 to turn offc1390 stripc1430 tirr1584 tirl1603 skin1659 society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > remove paint or varnish strip1908 c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 27 Take Almaundys..& strype of þe skyn. 1486 Bk. St. Albans b iij b Take a knyfe..and stripe the skynne a way from the necke. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/2 [Wett-Glover.] Pulling is stripping the Wooll of the skin. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 97/1 [Cushion and Bed Terms.] Stripping the Feathers from the Quills. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 210 Some strip the Skin, some portion out the Spoil. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (1778) 363 Gather your currants when the sun is hot upon them, strip them from the stalks. c1770 H. Glasse Compl. Confectioner 26 Take young and thick stalks of angelica.., strip off the skins, and cut them into narrow slips. 1780 Mirror No. 93. ⁋8 The best china was set out... The covers were stripped from the worked chair-bottoms. 1836 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 9 484 So perfect is the sheet of copper thus formed, that, on being stripped off, it has the polish and even a counterpart of every scratch of the plate on which it is deposited. 1849 M. Taylor's Builder's Price-bk. 63 Stripping and relaying ladies, countess, and duchess slating, per square, 0 10 0. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 22 Directly the feathers are stripped from the poultry, throw them loosely in the corner. 1888 W. J. Harrison Hist. Photogr. xiii. 112 In the same year (1855) the Frenchman, Galliard, coated collodion negatives with gelatine, and then stripped them from the glass. 1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 25 Apr. 78/2 The act of the defendants in stripping off the roof amounted to a forcible entry. 1908 P. N. Hasluck Cassell's House Decoration 171/2 All the washing and stripping should be done first. The wallpaper must be removed, and the paint stripped. 1913 J. G. Frazer Psyche's Task (ed. 2) iii. 30 When he has stripped the fruit [from the tree], the rascal restores the charm to its proper place. 1956 Pract. Householder July 596/1 A number of preparations..are intended to strip off only one coat at a time... I prefer the type which strips several coats. 1981 New Homemaker Apr. 90/1 (advt.) Stripping isn't the soul-destroying job it used to be... Powerful Ronseal strips without scraping. < as lemmas |
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