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Peel   /pil/   Listen
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Peel  v. t.  To plunder; to pillage; to rob. (Obs.) "But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces."


Peel  v. t.  (past & past part. peeled; pres. part. peeling)  
1.
To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. "The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands."
2.
To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.


Peel  v. i.  
1.
To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
2.
To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down. (nformal)


noun
Peel  n.  A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. (Scot.)


Peel  n.  A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.


Peel  n.  The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.





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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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