At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave herstrips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu intostrips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
1862, Henry Charles Watson,Eight Lectures Delivered at the School of Musketry, Hythe, Being an Explanation of the 'theoretical Principles' as Laid Down in the Book of Musketry Instruction, page78:
You learn, in 'Cleaning Arms,' how rustmay cause a 'strip,' and how itmust interfere with expansion. I need hardly say, that if the grooves be filled up, the rotation will be lost; or if the grooves bepartially filled up, the rotation will beweak,
1873 May 23, “Improved System of Rifling”, inEnglish Mechanics and the World of Science, volume17, number426, page241:
He has fired more than 100 rounds per barrel at a time, from nearly all the barrels converted on this system, without cleaning, and without having astrip, or failure as regards vertical accuracy.
1874, J.B. O'Hea, “Rifles and Rifling”, inJournal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume17, pages367–368:
What struck me as very marvellous was that in the course of a day's firing, with so many varieties of "part" rifling, there was not a singlestrip; I expected to have seen somestrips, for the ammunition was exceeding bad, independently of the novelty of the "part" system.
(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion
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Seeing that no one else was about, hestripped and dived into the river.
c.1503–1512,John Skelton,Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor,John Skelton: The Complete English Poems,1983,→OCLC, page63, lines49–53:
Thehyauter hestrypte naked; There on he stode, and craked; He shoke downe all the clothys, And sware horryble othes Before the face of God,[…]
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, inThe Guardian[3]:
The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters tostrip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms werestripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, inthe Guardian[4]:
The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying tostrip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the manstripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, inRAIL, number948, page 7:
The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which wasstripped of its franchise in October [...].
(transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from ascrew,nut, orgear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'llstrip the thread.
The screw isstripped.
(intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
(transitive) Tofire (a bullet or ball) from arifle such that it fails to pick up aspin from the rifling.
1859, James Dalziel Dougall,The rifle simplified, page29:
Well, strange to say, it is the opinion of "Stonehenge," and other good judges, that no rifle so readilystrips its ball, which consequently passes through the barrel without receiving the rotatory motion, and performs the most eccentric flights.
(intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
1859, James Dalziel Dougall,The rifle simplified, page31:
The number of grooves being only three, admits of these being shallow, so that the ball does notstrip readily, while a further most ingenious adaptation is that the grooves be trice as deep (but, let the reader remember that such measurements are made by five-thousanths of an inch) at the breech as at the mizzle, so that the ball always becoming more compressed as it leaves the barrel.
(transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
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What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game ofstrip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.
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Strip in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
