v. Now dial. and rare. [UN-2 9.] trans. To strip.
1596. Warner, Alb. Eng., XII. lxxvii. 313. The Oste and Ostlers … Came in, where he, almost vnstript, but wholly skar’de, did stand.
1637. R. Ashley, trans. Malvezzi’s David Persecuted, 250. Any, to whom he may unstrip himselfe, and discover the secrets of his heart.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xxiv. 281. The Villaine … charg’d Leandra to unstrip her.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 27. The … continuance of these Ships … in their sheathing, without their being in all that time unstripp’d, for the necessary searching of their bottoms.
1764. Goldsm., Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772), II. 182. Pretended patriotism unstripped of its mask.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, 460.
1905. in Eng. Dial. Dict.
