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- noun Plural form of
stripping . - noun The last
milk drawn from acow at a milking.
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Examples
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Put 5 quarts of strippings, that is, the last of the milking, into
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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To be certain all was done fairly, they agreed that they should not save what were called the strippings, but that the milk and strippings should all go together.
Latest Articles lds.org 2010
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These specimens must appear as exceptional; they may be considered by some as "strippings;" but as against such a view we have the recurrence in each sample of the same characteristics in the milk and a near correspondence in the composition.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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We do not see the rape, and the moment is not eroticized as are, say, the ordered strippings-off of Manu Bennett.
SPARTACUS: episode 12 hradzka 2010
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It took God many years and quite a number of strippings and humblings before I was willing to say
Archive 2008-04-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2008
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It took God many years and quite a number of strippings and humblings before I was willing to say
A Dangerous Prayer Heidi Hess Saxton 2008
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Five detainees have died in custody, three of them in suspicious circumstances, and survivors have told stories of beatings, strippings, hoodings and sleep deprivation.
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She sat with her bucketful of strippings and her armful of guts.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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She dropped them into a bucket with the strippings from the guts and hobbled off to her small hovel with them.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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She sat with her bucketful of strippings and her armful of guts.
Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993
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