▪ I. stripe, n.1 Sc.
(straɪp)
Also: α. 6 strip, 5–8 stryp(e, 7 stryip; β. 7 streape, 9 streap.
[Prob. cogn. w. strip n.2, stripe n.3; cf. WFlem. strip a running stream of liquid, e.g. of milk from a teat. Cf. OIrish sribh stream.]
A small stream, a rivulet, rill.
| c 1440 Reg. Aberd. (Maitland Club) I. 248 Ascendand þat lech til it cum to þe Karlynden and swa throw þe said den descendand a stripe til it cum to þe burn of Cortycrum. 1456–70 in Acts Parlt. Scot. (1875) XII. 27/1 Begynnand at the burne that gays fra Auchquhorty quhar that the strype fallys in the said burne. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot., Descr. Albion xiii. (1821) I. p. xlvi, Fra this fontane discendis ane litil burne, or strip. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 118 As..the water strype rinis to the fontane [L. tanquam ad fontem rivulus]. a 1598 Rollock Passion i. (1616) 3 This Brooke Cedron..was a little streape that ran when it was raine. 1598 [see south A. 5 a]. 1615 Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848) II. 326 Ane great stryip callit the Banstickill burne. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VII. 290/2 A very small stripe of water..should always be running in and off from your pit. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 33 Ilk laird's domain was clearly seen Defin'd wi' streaps o' silver sheen, That intervein'd the manors green. 1892 J. A. Henderson Ann. Lower Deeside 110 A hollow close by is still called the ‘Bloody Stripe’. |
▪ II. stripe, n.2
(straɪp)
Also 5–6 stryppe, strype, 6 strip, 7 stripp.
[Prob. from LG. or Du.: cf. mod.Du. strippen to whip, strips flogging (in strips krijgen to get a flogging), also mod.WFris. strips; but these words have not been found so early as the Eng. word. Cf. also MLG. strippe strap, whip-lash (see strip n.2).
The common view that this word is a use of stripe n.3 would be plausible (on the assumption that sense 3 below is the original), but for the fact that stripe n.3 is not recorded till the 17th c., while this n. occurs in the 15th c.]
† 1. A blow or stroke with a staff, sword, or other weapon, with a missile, with the claws or hoofs of an animal, etc. Cf. hand-stripe. Obs.
| c 1475 Songs & Carols (Percy Soc.) 92 A strype ore ij. God myght send me, If my husbond myght her se me. 1530 Palsgr. 277/2 Stryppe, stroke or swappe, coup. 1530 Tindale Gen. iv. 23, I haue slayne a man and wounded my selfe, and have slayn a yongman, and gotte my selfe strypes. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 11 b, If an Asse had geven me a strype with his heele. Ibid. 289 Receiuyng a stripe with a sweorde, he gaue but one sole grone, & [etc.]. 1544 Betham Precepts War i. lvi. D ij, And so either wil they suffre to take their cytye, or els they wyl fyght with the, and deale strypes. 1545 R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 123 The shaftes in Inde were verye longe,..and therfore they gaue ye greater strype. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 128 b, Thei lefte woordes, and went to stripes. a 1552 Leland Itin. (1769) V. 54 The Egle doth sorely assaut hym that distroith the nest, goyng doun in one Basket, and having a nother over his Hedde to defend the sore Stripe of the Egle. 1579–80 North Plutarch, P. æmilius (1595) 271 Perseus went from the battell..because he had a stripe of a horse on the thigh the day before. 1580 Tusser Husb. (1878) 129 Maides, mustard seede gather, for being too ripe, and weather it well, er ye giue it a stripe. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 27 With one stripe Her Lions clawes he from her feete away did wipe. |
† b. A touch on the keys of an instrument; hence, measure, strain. Obs.
| 1590 Greene Never too Late i. (1600) B 1 b, As in field this sheepheard lay, Tuning of his oaten pipe, Which he hit with many a stripe. 1592 ― Vision Wks. (Grosart) XII. 198 Tytirus..Straigned ditties from his pipe, With pleasant voyce and cunning stripe. 1613–16 W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii. 3 Now till the Sunne shall leaue vs to our rest,..I shall goe on: and first in diffring stripe, The floud-Gods speech thus tune on Oaten pipe [Here the metre changes]. Ibid. ii. iii. 731 And scarce one ended had his skilfull stripe, But streight another tooke him to his Pipe. |
2. A stroke or lash with a whip or scourge. Now arch., chiefly in pl.
| c 1485 Digby Myst., Mary Magd. 1176 Stryppys on þi ars þou xall have. 1526 Tindale Luke xii. 47 The servaunt that knowe his masters wyll, and prepared nott him silfe,..shalbe beten with many strypes. 1580 E. Knight Trial Truth 82 b, Euen as a good father or master that threateneth and shaketh the rod before hee layeth on the strypes. c 1623 Lodge Poor Mans Talent C 1, Sometimes the said paine commeth by a blow or stripp. 1692 J. Washington tr. Milton's Def. People Eng. ii. 33 The Hebrew Kings were liable..to be punished with stripes, if they were found faulty. 1780 J. Howard Prisons Eng. 141 Keepers are punished for this..by a fine for the first offence; and for the second by stripes. 1788 Massachusetts Spy 25 Sept. 3/3 On Thursday last, fifteen persons were publickly punished,..William Nelson, 64 stripes. 1836 Cobden in Morley Life (1881) I. iii. 53 The backshish kept the boat going, when stripes would have only made it stand. 1836 Capt. Boldero Sp. Ho. Comm. 13 Apr. in Hansard 942 Colonel Evans also had commanded in many regiments, in which not a stripe had been inflicted for two or three years. 1839 F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia (1863) 39 Labor exacted with stripes—how do you fancy that? 1887 Hall Caine Coleridge i. 25 There is a tradition that Bowyer sometimes gave him an extra stripe of the birch ‘because he was so ugly’. |
| fig. 1830 Carlyle Richter Again Ess. 1840 II. 319 In regard to moral matters Leipzig was his true seminary, where, with many stripes, Experience taught him the wisest lessons. 1851 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) 202 Each passing day both gives to us and takes from us. It may give a stripe, a smile, a counsel, a reproach. |
† b. A stroke of divine judgement. Obs.
| 1564–78 W. Bullein Dialogue 37 By what signe or token is this perilous plague or stripe of the pestilence best knowen emong the Phisitions? 1609 Bible (Douay) Exod. vii. Annot. 173 It ought to haue auailed Pharao to saluation, that Gods patience deferring his iust and deserued punishment, multiplied vpon him frequent stripes of miracles. 1623 Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref. 13 The least stripe that God giveth man after this life, is everlasting damnation. |
† c. Said of a person: A ‘scourge’. Obs.
| 1570 Satir. Poems Reform. xiii. 99 Ȝe wer ay callit for ȝour tyrannie Strypis of the Schyre. |
† 3. The mark left by a lash; a weal. Obs. rare.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 480/1 Stripe, or schorynge wythe a baleys, vibex. c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 791/23 Hec vibex, a strype. 1726–46 Thomson Winter 373 Little tyrants..At pleasure mark'd him with inglorious stripes. |
† b. fig. A mark of disgrace. Obs.
| 1607 Heywood Wom. Killed w. Kindn. iv. v. Wks. 1874 II. 140 Her spotted body Hath stain'd their names with stripe of bastardy. |
▪ III. stripe, n.3
(straɪp)
[Not found till the 17th c., but prob. much older. If not a back-formation from striped a., prob. a. MLG. or MDu. strîpe (early mod.Du. † strijpe), corresp. to OHG. *strîfo (implied in the derivative strîphaht striped a.), MHG. strîfe (mod.G. streifen) masc., Sw. stripa, Da. stribe, also ON., MSw. str{iacu}p a striped fabric (cf. Icel. str{iacu}prendr striped). Parallel synonymous forms, differing in ablaut-grade, are WFlem. striepe, MDu. strêpe (mod.Du. streep fem.); outside Teut. the OIrish sr{iacu}ab, stripe (:—*sreibā), srebnaid striped, are believed to be cognate. The Teut. root *strī̆p- (:*straip-):—pre-Teut. *streib- seems to have been nearly synonymous with *strī̆k-:—pre-Teut. *streig- (see strike v.), to which it may be ultimately related; the sense of the root is shown in the wk. verb OHG. *straifjôn (MHG. streifen, streipfen, mod.G. streifen) to graze, pass over lightly, wander (the mod.G. streifen also represents MHG. ströufen: see strip v.1). For other cognates see strip n.2, stripe n.1, n.2, and v.1
There would seem to be some obscure relation between the Teut. roots *strī̆p- and *streup- (see strip v.1) similar to that existing between *strī̆k- and *streuk-: see strike v.]
1. a. In textile fabrics, hence gen. (e.g. in the coat of an animal, a flower, a decorative pattern), a portion of the surface long in proportion to its breadth, or uniform width, and differing in colour or texture from the adjacent parts.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva § 510 Carnation of seuerall Stripes. 1687 Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. 11, The stripes of a striped Stuff, les Raies (ou Barres) d'une Etoffe rayée... To make white, or yellow stripes, rayer de blanc, ou de jaune. 1697 W. Dampier Voy. I. xix. 533 There is a very beautiful sort of wild Ass in this Country, whose body is curiously striped with equal lists of white and black: the stripes coming from the ridge of his Back. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stripe,..a streak in Silk Cloth, or Stuff. 1746 Hervey Medit. (1748) I. 170 Some [flowers] are intersected with elegant Stripes, or studded with radiant Spots. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 27 The little ground squirrel of Carolina, of a reddish colour, and blackish stripes on each side. 1782 E. Watson Men & Times Revol. (1861) 202 The back⁓ground, which Copley and I designed to represent a ship, bearing to America the intelligence of the acknowledgment of Independence, with a sun just rising upon the stripes of the union, streaming from her gaff. 1802 C. James Milit. Dict. s.v., Regimental sword knots are directed to be made of crimson and gold in stripes. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Dau. iii. xii, The Sir Timothy Wadd..with..the Honourable John Company's stripes flying, had once the honour of being taken for an American seventy-four. 1859 Darwin Orig. Spec. v. 164 In the north-west part of India..a horse without stripes is not considered as purely-bred. 1860 W. P. Lennox Pict. Sporting Life I. 209 Waistcoat, blue and yellow stripe, each stripe an inch in depth. 1868 W. B. Marriott Vestiarium Chr. Introd. v. 37 Various grades of rank were distinguished at Rome..by the colour and by the relative width of the ornamental stripes worn upon the tunic by senators, and by knights. 1897 Proc. Zool. Soc. 545 A similar coloured short longitudinal stripe is also placed at the middle of each elytron. 1912 H. J. Butler Motor Bodies 108 The body panels are often striped. This may be either as a broad stripe, say an inch wide, or a series of, say, three fine lines occupying together one inch of panel. |
b. (Old) Stripes, a jocular name for a tiger.
| 1885 W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. in Jungle xiv. 157 There was Old Stripes in all his glory. 1909 Ladies' Field 28 Aug. 511/2 How I shot my first ‘stripes.’ |
c. In the names of certain moths.
| 1775 M. Harris Engl. Lepidoptera 45 Phalæna... 315 Stripe, white. 316 Stripe, shoulder. 317 Stripe, yellow shoulder. 318 Stripe, cream dot. 1832 J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & Moths 127 The Oblique Stripe. Ibid. 164 The Dark Silver Stripe. Ibid. 201 The Treble Gold Stripe. |
d. pl. A prison uniform (with reference to the stripes with which it is patterned). U.S. slang.
| 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 29 Jan. 3/2 He changed his stripes for a suit of citizens' clothes. 1905 B. Tarkington In Arena 22 I'm going to clear this town of fraud, and if Gorgett don't wear the stripes for this my name's not Farwell Knowles! 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. ii. 212 He had never seen convicts' stripes before either. 1943 P. Sturges in Gassner & Nichols Best Film Plays 1943–44 279/1 He's going to be in jail, Trudy, for a long time. He can't do you any good in stripes, honey. |
e. A narrow strip of magnetic material along the edge of a cine film on which the sound may be recorded.
| 1954 R. H. Cricks tr. Bau's How to make 8 mm. Films as Amateur 169 The magnetic stripe is coated between the perforations and the edge of the film. 1972 Amateur Photographer 12 Jan. 65/3 Fujicascope SH1... Sound unit: Magnetic sound stripe, 6w amplifier. 1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 49/1 Sights and sounds the camera records stay together on the super 8 film in synch during processing. Spoken comment can be added to the magnetic stripe during projection. |
f. U.S. A line which forms part of the marking on a sports pitch or court. Cf. line n.2 7 f.
| 1967 Boston Herald 1 Apr. 17/1 Kennedy led the visitors with 17 points, 11 from the foul stripe. 1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 3 Mar. 1-d/7 We wanted to keep him off the foul line (Stewart made one of two from the stripe). |
2. A narrow strip of cloth, braid, or gold lace, sewn on a garment of different colour. Popularly applied to the chevron worn on the upper part of the coat-sleeve by a non-commissioned officer to indicate his rank. Also applied to the similarly shaped badge worn on the sleeve by soldiers in recognition of good conduct; and (in more recent use) to the vertical badge on the left sleeve of a soldier who has been wounded. to pull stripes: see pull v. 20 h.
In the British army the lance-corporal wears one ‘stripe’, the corporal two, and the sergeant three.
An earlier name was ‘slash’ (C. James Milit. Dict. 1802).
| 1827 [Maginn] Milit. Sketch-bk. I. 297 Ye speak your sentiments like a good sodger, and I hope afore long that ye'll have the stripes. 1848 J. Grant Adv. Aide-de-C. xxxiv, Rings worn on the arms of the privates, called ‘good-conduct stripes.’ 1861 Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 165/1 Although I used to wear the colonel's livery, yet I had the full corporal's stripes on my coat. 1876 Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 25/1 The good-conduct stripes worn on the arm by men of good behaviour are also called badges. 1892 Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, Danny Deever 7 They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away. 1916 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 124/1 Private Tosh was ‘offered a stripe,’ too, but declined. |
3. In glass, a streak differing in refractive power from the general mass.
| 1823 J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 174 In making these pastes many precautions are necessary,..lest bubbles and stripes do supervene. |
4. A striped textile fabric.
| 1751 Rep. Comm. Linen Manuf. (1773) II. 291 He imports Irish Yarn, which he manufactures into Cheques and Stripes. 1889 Textile News 5 Apr. 24/2 The chief goods in request are still the finer qualities of worsteds in stripes and checks. |
5. Geol. A narrow band of rock interposed between strata of differing character.
| 1799 Kirwan Geol. Ess. 302 Grey stone, with coal stripes. 1805 Jameson Min. Descr. Dumfries 153 In sandstone, limestone, and salt, regular and very extensive stripes are sometimes observed, which have been confounded with true strata seams. 1849 Murchison Siluria ii. (1854) 24 These contorted, crystalline rocks..are associated with stripes or patches..of different palæozoic rocks of Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous age. |
6. a. A long narrow tract of land (occas. of ice). Cf. strip n.2 1 c.
| 1801 H. Skrine Rivers Gt. Brit. iii. 46 The extraordinary stripe of romantic beauty which environs them [i.e. the baths] must create a peculiar interest in Matlock. 1802 Home Hist. Reb. i. 4 A narrow stripe of land, between the hills and the German Ocean. 1807 J. Headrick View Mineral. etc. Arran 309 The cultivated land is occupied in run-rig, or in narrow stripes, called butts, with intervals betwixt them, whose possessors are changed every second or third year. 1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journ. Amer. (1818) 26 The country, from Richmond to Fredericksburg, is a barren sandy level, relieved occasionally by a stripe of better soil, on the banks of a rivulet. 1823 A. Small Roman Antiq. iii. 61 The very spot cannot be seen for a stripe of planting. 1823 Scoresby Jrnl. 253, I reached a stripe of ice firmly frozen to the ground. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xxi. 149 Narrow stripes of ice separated from each other by parallel moraines. |
b. Anglo-Irish. (See quot.)
| 1888 Times 8 Dec. 5/3, I believe the holdings of tenants in the neighbourhood are called ‘stripes’?—Yes. |
7. A strip, shred; a narrow piece cut out.
| 1785 Cowper Task i. 40 Now came the cane from India..; sever'd into stripes That interlac'd each other, these supplied Of texture firm a lattice-work. 1799 Hull Advertiser 28 Dec. 3/2 Bankers have been in the habit of paying their notes..sometimes with a stripe in the middle taken out. 1814 Scott Wav. vi, He produced a letter, carefully folded, surrounded by a little stripe of flox-silk, according to ancient form. 1835 Browning Paracelsus iv. 200 Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum. 1843 Carlyle Misc., Dr. Francia (1857) IV. 269 General Artegas was seen..sitting among field-officers, all on cow-skulls, toasting stripes of beef. 1875 G. W. Dasent Vikings I. 122, I will cut a red stripe out of each of your backs. |
8. orig. U.S. a. A particular shade or variety of political or religious doctrine; in wider sense, a sort, class, type.
| 1853 Congressional Globe 11 Feb. 576/3 He has not been long in his present ‘stripe’ of politics. 1854 Ibid. 18 May 1206/2 Every member of the Democratic party, of whatever shade or stripe, is perfectly honest. 1863 Battlefields of the South I. vii. 93 Frank Blair pointed him out as ‘of the right stripe’—the ‘coming man’. 1875 Stedman Vict. Poets vii. (1887) 256 Various poems are of a democratic, liberal stripe, inspired by the struggle then commencing over Europe. 1890 Hosmer Anglo-Sax. Freedom 292 The religious faiths of the immigrants were various, not all or one stripe. 1943 L. Adamic My Native Land 137 Trubar scored a great cultural victory and set a national-linguistic precedent for men of his stripe. 1968 Guardian 9 Apr. 9/3 Negro organisers of all stripes, urging their footloose young ‘to keep your cool’. 1979 Daily Tel. 6 Sept. 4/2 Guyana, led by a Socialist of another stripe. |
b. = streak n.1 6.
| 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner iii, [The dog had] a projection of the lower jaw, which looked as if there might be a bull-dog stripe among the numerous bar-sinisters of his lineage. |
9. black stripe = black strap: see black a. 19.
| 1880 Barman's & Barmaid's Man. 55. |
10. Comb. in parasynthetic adjs., chiefly Zool. and Bot., as stripe-breasted, stripe-cheeked, stripe-necked, stripe-tailed, stripe-throated; stripe-flowered, stripe-leaved; also stripe-shadowed nonce-wd., crossed by stripes of shadow.
| 1837 W. Swainson Birds W. Africa I. 267 *Stripe-breasted Bristle-neck. Tricophorus strigilatus, Swains. |
| 1802 Shaw Naturalist's Misc. XIII. Pl. 517 Trochilus superbus... The *Stripe-cheeked Humming-bird. |
| 1822 Hortus Anglicus II. 171 B[rassica] Eruca. *Stripe flowered Cabbage, or Garden Rocket. |
| 1796 W. Marshall Planting II. 303 The English Oak admits of some Varieties:..There is one Variegation under the name of the *Stripe-leaved Oak. |
| 1893 Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. I. 472 The *stripe-necked mungoose (Herpestes viticollis). |
| 1878 Meredith Love in the Valley xvii. Poet. Wks. (1912) 234 In a breezy link Freshly sparkles garden to *stripe-shadowed orchard. |
| 1812 Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. 34 *Stripe-tailed Hornbill. |
| 1837 Swainson Birds W. Africa (1861) II. 241 *Stripe-throated Lapwing. Vanellus strigilatus, Swains. |
▪ IV. stripe, v.1
(straɪp)
[Belongs to stripe n.2 Sense 2 is prob. a new formation on the n.]
† 1. trans. To beat, whip. Obs.
| c 1460 [see striping vbl. n. below]. 1530 Palsgr. 740/2, I strype, I beate, je bats. 1533 More Apol. xxxvi. 197, I caused a seruaunt of myne to strype [1557 stryppe] hym lyke a chyld. Ibid. 198 They stryped [1557 stripped] hym with roddys. |
2. To punish with stripes. rare.
| 1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. i. v. 37 We shall all be striped and scourged till we do learn it. 1870 Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. (1898) 64 Still the Gods love her..this good France, the bleeding thing they stripe. |
Hence ˈstriping vbl. n.1
| c 1460 Promp. Parv. 442 (Winch.) Strypynge, or scorgynge with abaleys: vibex. 1823 Bentham Not Paul 383 [Paul's] eight stripings and beatings. |
▪ V. stripe, v.2
(straɪp)
Also 6 stryppe; pa. tense 6 stripped; pa. pple. 6 stripped, 7 stript.
[f. stripe n.3 (in early examples perh. f. strip n.1)
It is possible that striped a. may have been early adopted from LG. or Du., and that the verb is a back-formation.]
1. trans. To ornament (cloth, a garment) with narrow pieces of material or with stripes of colour.
In quot. 1471 perh. ‘to border’: cf. strip n.1 1.
| 1471 Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 140, I pray zow that the welvet that levyt of my typet may be send hom a geyn, for I woold strype a dobelet ther with. 1547 in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 13, viij pere sloppes of changeable Taffita stripyd vpon with blewe golde dornix. 1558 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 20 Redd cloth of gold with Roses and Scallope shells stripped down. 1583 Rates Custom Ho. A viij b, Canuas striped with silk. 1611 Cotgr., Brocar, satin stript, or purfled, with gold. 1621 in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) 235 Some stript with blew for napkininge. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 May 4/2 A galloon effect, contrived either by tucking a strip of muslin or by striping a strip of muslin over with bars of narrow satin ribbon. |
2. To mark with a narrow band or with bands of colour; to mark with alternate stripes of colour. a. Nat. Hist. In pa. pple. Const. † in, with.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 31/4 Those [leeches] which have the backe stripped, stroked with goulde⁓yellow strokes. 1645 G. Daniel Poems Wks. (Grosart) II. 51 A goodly Tulip, Stript In Gold and Purple. 1660 F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 184 The Girafe striped with white and red. 1859 Darwin Orig. Spec. v. 165, I once saw a mule with its legs so much striped that [etc.]. |
b. gen.
| 1842 Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 212 She..call'd him by his name, complaining loud, And dropping bitter tears against his brow Striped with dark blood. 1875 O. C. Stone in Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc. XLVI. 58 An heroic deed entitles a man to the distinguished privilege of striping his forehead. 1895 Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 209 As the sun rose they [sc. the morning mists]..churned off and let the low rays stripe the dried grass. 1908 Nation 13 June 374/1 Her husband stripes a toy canoe with red and black to please the fishing-spirit. |
c. intr. Of a plant: To become variegated. Also trans. To produce variegation in (a plant).
| 1725 Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Stripe, Cions of the Spanish Jessamine, whose Leaves had not been known to Stripe. 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Variegated, But whatever some Persons have affirm'd of striping Plants by Art, I could never observe it done by any. |
d. To apply a magnetic stripe to (a cine film). Cf. stripe n.3 1 e.
| 1954 R. H. Cricks tr. Bau's How to make 8 mm. Films as Amateur 169 You then send your film to a suitable firm which ‘stripes’ it—i.e., coats a narrow strip of magnetic material along its whole length. Two methods of striping have been proposed. 1960 R. Bateman Movie-Making as Pastime ix. 58 A ‘magnetic stripe’ system is becoming more widely used... Experiments in ‘striping’ 8 mm film have been made. |
3. To finish (a surface) with grooves or ridges (see quots.). Also absol.
| 1842 Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Droved and striped. Work [in masonry] that is first droved and then striped. The stripes are shallow grooves done with a..chisel. 1882 W. J. Christy Joints 206 Very coarse solder..would set quickly and be porous were it not glazed over by striping or overcasting. |
† 4. intr. ? To form a stripe. Obs.
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. i. 40 The breadth in the planure is narrow, but stripeth larger among the hills and lakes. |
5. trans. To divide (land) into strips or plots. Anglo-Irish. Cf. stripe n.3 6 b.
| 1882 P. H. Bagenal in 19th Cent. Dec. 927 [The Irish tenant] stripes the worst and wildest portion and lets it out to the labourers. 1886 Daily News 13 Dec. 5/8 About 52 years ago the land reclaimed by their industry was striped, or apportioned, out among the tenants separately. |
▪ VI. stripe, v.3
(straɪp)
[var. of strip v.3]
1. trans. To thrust or draw (a thing, esp. a sword in order to cleanse or sharpen it) through, over. Sc. and north. Cf. stroke v.1 2.
| 17.. Clark Sanders xv. in Child Ballads II. 159/1 Out he has taen a bright long brand, And he has striped it throw the straw. 17.. Johnny Scott xxviii. Ibid. 396/2 He's taen his broadsword in his hand, And stripd it oer a stane. 1895 Crockett Men of Mosshags v. 44 Wat, bending a little forward in his saddle and striping one long gauntlet glove lightly through the palm of the other hand. |
† 2. To draw the edge of an instrument sideways over (a surface). Obs.
| 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm i. xxviii. 132 Another Groome shall take a piece of a Sword blade,..and..he shall with the edge strype and wype downe the Horse. |
▪ VII. stripe
obs. form of strip n.1