Word Meanings - UNDRAPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.
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- 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 - UNVEIL
To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face. - DRAPERY
1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon. 2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay. 3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, - STRIP-LEAF
Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. - STRIPLING
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. - STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. - UNCOVER
1. To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body. 2. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation." Milton. 3. To divest of the - STRIPED
Having stripes of different colors; streaked. Striped bass. See under Bass. -- Striped maple , a slender American tree (Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood. -- Striped mullet. See - STRIPE
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. 3. A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed - STRIPPET
A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed. - UNVEILER
One who removes a veil. - STRIP
To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. (more info) 1. 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, - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - OUTSTRIP
To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson. - RIPPING STRIP
= Ripping panel.