verb. (old).—1. See quot.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. STRIP, c. to Rob or Gut a House, to unrig any Body, or to Bite them of their Money. STRIP THE KEN, c. to Gut the House. STRIP THE TABLE, c. to Winn all the Money on the Place. Ibid. ‘Poor, naked’: e.g., ‘We have STRIPT the Cull’ = ‘We have got all the Fool’s Money’; ‘The Cove’s STRIPT’ = ‘the Rogue has not a Jack left to help himself.’
