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(Strip,) Stryp(e, v. Also: straipe, strippyn. P.t. also strypeit. [ME and e.m.E. strepte p.t. (c1200), strupen (a1225), strepe(n, streepe(n (both Chaucer), stripe(n (Trevisa), strype(n (14th c.), streppyn (Prompt. Parv.), strip (a1586).]

1. To divest (a person or body) of clothing. Const. nakit (also, of clothes). Also fig.(1) 1558-66 Knox II 68.
The Frenche … strypeit naikit all the slayne 1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 612.
[They] cutted my breaches and stripped me naiked 1629 Sc. N. & Q. III 63.
To be presentlie strippit naikit and scurgit out of this burgh(2) 1620 Crim. Trials III 491.
Binding him hand and fute, and cayreing him as ane captiue and prissoner, … and stryppit him naikit of his claithes 1650 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 614.
[The English] stryped him naked of his cloathes and sent him bak to the Scottis leagurefig. 1600-1610 Melvill 536.
The Kirk strypit nakit of hir chieffe armoure

b. fig. To divest of some undesirable attributes; to reveal, unmask. 1600-1610 Melvill 117.
When the Lord haid stryped him naked and bear of all these things warldlie 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 27.
Why should not such hulcerous phisters be bard and tented & rogry striped naked?

2. a. To skin (an animal) (of its hide). b. To denude (trees) (of bark or foliage).a. 1513 Doug. xiii ii 17.
Furth haue thai rent thar entralis full onrude And gan denude and strippyn of thar hydis 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 73.
The master striped it [sc. the viper] as a man would do an elleb. 1513 Doug. vii Prol. 66.
Woddis, forrestis, with nakyt bewis blowt, Stude stripyt of thar weid in euery howt

3. a. To plunder, rob (a person) of possessions and property. b. To plunder, steal (possessions) from (of) (bodies).a. c1590 Fowler II 74/17.
A natural and ordinarye necessetie, quhilk forces … the conquerer to straipe and distres these ouer quhome he is becommed new lord and soveraineb. c1515 Asl. MS I 307/12.
He chargit cartis with ryngis, goldin chenȝeis, precious stanis and jowallis stripit of slane men