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Peeler  n.  A nickname for a policeman; so called from Sir Robert Peel. (British Slang) See Bobby.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Peeler" Quotes from Famous Books



... his elbow who turned to him and said, "Them lads 'ud run like hell if you were to point a penny pop-gun at them! If a peeler was to take their names, they'd be shiverin' with fright. They'd fall out of their trousers with the ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... ould auncient Wynns of Dunore since Adam was a boy! I donno why I didn't pound him into smithereens when I had him so 'andy on the flat of his back—only for Miss Linda, the darlin' crathur, telling me not. Sure there isn't a peeler in the whole counthry, nor a jail neither, for a thousand mile. Now I wondher, av it was a thing I did bate him black an' blue, whose business would it be to 'rest me; an' is it before the masther I'd ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... "The peeler," Milly Sanders nodded; and it flashed on Gilbart that the policeman's joke, the carriage, the girl's face and these thoughts of his had all gone by in something less than ten seconds. "He've got the 'ump to-night, that's what's the matter with 'im." And Milly Sanders ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... winnowing.—The coffee-peeler, used for separating the bean from the pellicle, was formerly a large wheel revolving in a trough, the disadvantage of which was the flattening more or less of the bean when not thoroughly dry. A new machine has been recently introduced, ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... uneasy about their treasures, lest their turn for spoliation might come next. The police arrangements for the town were still of a very primitive character, and quite inadequate for due protection of the householder. The days of the "bobby" and "peeler" were not yet, at least in country districts; although Sir Robert Peel had done away with the old watchman, and established the present police system in the metropolis; and some other of our larger towns had followed suit. But in ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter



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