stripper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that strips, as one that strips photographic negatives or positives.
2. n. A chemical product for removing a surface covering, such as paint or varnish, from furniture or floors.
3. n. One who performs a striptease.
4. n. An oil well that produces ten barrels or fewer per day.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who strips, or an implement or machine used for stripping. Specifically— In wool-carding: A small card-roll the function of which is to remove or strip the fiber from another roll in a carding-machine. The fiber thus stripped off is delivered to some other carding-roll or worker. In some carding-machines a stripper is used to take the wool from the licker-in and deliver it to the breast-cylinder.
2. n. A card so trimmed that it can be withdrawn from the pack at will.
3. n. In dairying, a cow that is about to run dry or cease giving milk.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who removes their clothing, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
2. n. A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
3. n. A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, strips a machine for stripping cards.
2. n. (Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
3. n. (Agric.) A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants.
4. n. a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface.
5. n. a person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; -- also called an ecdysiast, exotic dancer, or strip-teaser.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
2. n. a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
3. n. a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
4. n. an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day