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noun

Stripper n.

One who, or that which, strips; specifically, A machine for stripping cards.

(Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.

(Agric.) A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants.

A solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface.

A person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; also called an ecdysiast, exotic dancer, or strip-teaser.

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Etymology of 'Stripper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stripper" Quotes from Famous Books

... represents the feeding arrangement. Here the wool is delivered by the feed rollers, A A, in the usual manner. The longer fibers are then taken off by a comb, B, and brought forward to the stripper, E, which transfers them to the roller, H, and thence to the cylinder. The shorter fibers which are not seized by the comb fall down, but as they drop they meet a blast of air created by a fan, which throws the lighter and cleaner parts in a kind of spray upon the roller, L, whence they pass ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... King and H.A. Rice, Louisiana, Mo.—The object of this invention is to provide a seed and grain stripper, with light and strong fingers, capable of adjustment as to hight, and arranged in a way to vary the spaces between the teeth at the point of stripping the heads ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... mills, as the landlord's pasture was near his hotel. To bring the coal and ore to the blast furnaces took little labor, just as my driving in the cows cost the landlord but four cents a day. Next to the blast furnaces stood the mixer, the Bessemer open hearth furnaces, the ingot stripper building, the soaking pits and then the loading yards with their freight cars where the finished product in the form of wire, rails or sky-scraper steel ...

— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis