stripper

stripper
/strip"euhr/, n.
1. a person who strips.
2. a thing that strips, as an appliance or machine for stripping.
3. Also called ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripteaser. a person who performs a striptease.
4. a harvesting machine for stripping the seed heads from the stalks of grain.
5. a machine used in harvesting cotton to strip the bolls from the plants.
6. a chemical solution that removes varnish, paint, wax, etc., from a surface, as of furniture or flooring.
7. any of several rollers covered with card clothing that operate in combination with the worker rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers.
8. Print. a worker who assembles and strips photographic negatives or positives for platemaking. Cf. strip2 (def. 10).
[1575-85; STRIP1 + -ER1]

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