[Belongs to STRIPE sb.2 Sense 2 is prob. a new formation on the sb.]
† 1. trans. To beat, whip. Obs.
c. 1460. [see vbl. sb. 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 Striping vbl. sb.
c. 1460. Promp. Parv., 442 (Winch.). Strypynge, or scorgynge with abaleys: vibex.
1823. Bentham, Not Paul, 383. [Paul’s] eight stripings and beatings.
