Vocabulary : Stringer to Striped

Stringer : One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. ;; A libertine; a wencher. ;; A longitudinal sleeper. ;; A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams. ;; A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Stringhalt : An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
Stringiness : Quality of being stringy.
Stringing : of String
Stringless : Having no strings.
Stringpiece : A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.: ;; One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
Stringy : Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. ;; Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Strip : To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. ;; To divest of clothing; to uncover. ;; To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. ;; To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. ;; To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow. ;; To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. ;; To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses. ;; To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. ;; To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. ;; To remove the met
Stripe : A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe. ;; A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. ;; A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment. ;; A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark. ;; A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like. ;; Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe. ;; The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer. ;; To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes. ;; To strike; to lash.
Striped : of Stripe ;; Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
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