Category:Peel

Peel, n. Etym: [oe. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.]

Defn: a small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [scot.]

Peel Peel, n. Etym: [f. pelle, l. pala.]

Defn: 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 Peel, v. t. Etym: [confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to Pillage. See pill to rob, pillage.]

Defn: to plunder; to pillage; to rob. [obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, peeling their provinces. Milton.

Peel Peel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling.] Etym: [f. Peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to Deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to Peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. Fell skin). Cf. Peruke.]

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. Shak.

2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an Animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

Peel Peel, v. i.

Defn: 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.

Peel Peel, n.

Defn: the skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.