Definition of tripping

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Tripping (n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

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Countertripping :: Countertripping (a.) Same as Countertrippant.
Nudation :: Nudation (n.) The act of stripping, or making bare or naked..
Frondation :: Frondation (n.) The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning..
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Denudation :: Denudation (n.) The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare..
Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..
Expilation :: Expilation (n.) The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
Scarifier :: Scarifier (n.) An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface..
Stripping :: Stripping (n.) The act of one who strips.
Washerwoman :: Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel..
Excortication :: Excortication (n.) The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication..
Strolled :: Stroking (n.) See Stripping, 2..
Decortication :: Decortication (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat..
Husking :: Husking (n.) The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn..
Trippingly :: Trippingly (adv.) In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly..
Dance :: Dance (v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music..
Tripping :: Tripping (a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
Tripping :: Tripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tri.
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc..
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