Word Meanings - STRIPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required

Additional info about word: STRIPPING

The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required such stripping. Mrs. Gaskell. 2. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRIPPING)

• Detruncation
• Lopping
• disramification
• pollarding
• dismemberment
• discorporation
• amputation
• stripping

Related words: (words related to STRIPPING)

• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• AMPUTATION
  The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.
• LOPPER
  One who lops or cuts off.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• LOPPARD
  A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
• DISMEMBERMENT
  The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.
• POLLARD
  1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant. 2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. Camden. A fish, the chub. A stag that has cast its antlers. A hornless animal .
• LOPPING
  A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.
• STRIPPET
  A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.
• DETRUNCATION
  The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
• LOPPY
  Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
• REAMPUTATION
  The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.
• SLOPPINESS
  The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
• SLOPPY
  Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
• FLOPPY
  Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot.