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Peel   /pil/   Listen
Peel

verb
(past & past part. peeled; pres. part. peeling)
1.
Strip the skin off.  Synonyms: pare, skin.
2.
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.  Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off.
3.
Get undressed.  Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress.  "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
noun
1.
British politician (1788-1850).  Synonyms: Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel.
2.
The rind of a fruit or vegetable.  Synonym: skin.



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"Peel" Quotes from Famous Books



... register if he was not to be a guest; no use to tell his name anyway, if he could avoid it, as he had successfully on the boat, and with a polite good-evening he stepped outside just as Mandy Ann, having finished her orange, peel and all, gathered herself up with a view to ...
— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes

... White Linen Nurse. "Potatoes? Oh, potatoes?" she finished more blithely. "Why, yes, of course! Don't you remember—you didn't have time to peel them for me? I ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... method was to put the fruit in a clean vessel or trough, and bruise or crush it with beetles, then put the crushed fruit in a bag of hair-cloth and press it.[297] After the cider was in the barrels there was placed in them a linen bag containing cloves, mace, cinnamon, ginger, and lemon peel which was said to make the cider taste as pleasantly ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler

... my heart,' replied the cook, and set immediately about it. It was as big as—let me see—as big as—as a hat when flapped. The cook had stuffed it with nice almonds, large pistachio nuts, and candied lemon-peel, and iced it over with a coat of sugar, so that it was very smooth and a perfect white. The cake no sooner was come home from baking than the cook put on her things, and ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas

... stepped softly to the awning, thrust his hand into a basket beneath the shelter, and took out three, returning to give one to the young Italian and one to Shaddy, reserving the last for himself and beginning to peel it at once. ...
— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn


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