stripping

Verb

1. 1

   Auch eine Form von strippresent participle and gerund of strip

Substantiv

1. 1

   The act of one who strips.

   1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions The mutual bows and courtesies […] are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.

   Never were cows that required such stripping.

2. 2

   A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream

3. 3

   The practice of stroking and compressing the teats or a cow to draw out the last of the milk.

   In the train coming out a chap told me what ‘stripping’ was - getting the last drop of milk from the cow, otherwise the cow would dry up sooner than it should.

Formen

Plural

strippings