Word.ws English Dictionary

field stripping

field stripping is the present participle and gerund of field strip.

Meaning of field strip

Verb

field strip (third-person singular simple present field strips, present participle field stripping, simple past and past participle field stripped)

  1. (transitive) To dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.
    • He'd learned how to work a repeater - even how to fieldstrip and clean it.1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.
  2. (transitive) To take apart (a cigarette butt) for the purpose of reducing litter.

Questions about field stripping

What is field stripping the present participle and gerund of?
Field stripping is the present participle and gerund of field strip.

Words near field stripping in the dictionary

  1. field stars
  2. field stop
  3. field stops
  4. field strip
  5. field stripped
  6. field stripping
  7. field strips
  8. field study
  9. field telephone
  10. field telephones
  11. field tent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: field stripping (page history and authors); field strip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “field stripping.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/field_stripping. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.