SPage 857
- English Word Stringer Definition A libertine; a wencher.
- English Word Stringer Definition A longitudinal sleeper.
- English Word Stringer Definition A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
- English Word Stringer Definition A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
- English Word Stringhalt Definition An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
- English Word Stringiness Definition Quality of being stringy.
- English Word Stringing Definition of String
- English Word Stringless Definition Having no strings.
- English Word Stringpiece Definition A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:
- English Word Stringpiece Definition One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
- English Word Stringy Definition Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
- English Word Stringy Definition Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
- English Word Strip Definition To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
- English Word Strip Definition To divest of clothing; to uncover.
- English Word Strip Definition To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
- English Word Strip Definition To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
- English Word Strip Definition 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.
- English Word Strip Definition To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- English Word Strip Definition 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.
- English Word Strip Definition To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.