strippings n pl also stribbins*. Cp OED stripping vbl sb1 2 'something stripped off.' Slivers (of wood); boughs from a tree, dried and used as fire-wood and kindling; cp BLASTY BOUGH.
T 141/69-652 But we'd had the bottom tore out of un an' the sides; bottom was tore to strippins, and a good bit o' the sides was tore up. M 71-117 [They used] to haul a load of dry boughs to be cut up into stribbins for a quick fire to bake bread or boil the kettle of a hot summer's day. Q 73-9 In Avondale, stribbins refers to the boughs when [the branches] have been cut off. However, in Harbour Main, stribbins mean all of a bough. 'I'll put some stribbins in the barn for the cow to lie on.' P 154-78 Stribbins: limb of a tree stripped out.
