Look up: Peel

1. peel
   Type: Term Pronunciation: pēl Definitions: 1. To remove the outer layer of something by a stripping or flaying action.
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2. Peel
   A small tower; typically, a fortified house on the border
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3. peel
   [n] - British politician (1788-1850) 2. [n] - the rind of a fruit or vegetable
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4. Peel
   originally a palisaded court. Later a stone tower house
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5. Peel
   Peel noun [ Middle English pel . Confer Pile a heap.] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [ Scot.]
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6. Peel
   Peel noun [ French pelle , Latin pala .] 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.
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7. Peel
   Peel transitive verb [ Confused with peel to strip, but from French piller to pillage. See Pill to rob, Pillage .] To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [ Obsolete] « But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces.» Milton.
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8. Peel
   Peel transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Peeled ; present participle & verbal noun Peeling .] [ French peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, from Latin pilare<...
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9. Peel
   Peel intransitive verb 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.
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10. Peel
    Peel noun The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
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11. peel
    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 ...
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12. peel
    skin noun the rind of a fruit or vegetable
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13. Peel
    Robert Peel noun British politician (1788-1850)
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14. peel
    flake verb come off in flakes or thin small pieces; `The paint in my house is peeling off`
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15. peel
    noun the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
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16. peel
    (pēl) the outer covering of something. to remove such an outer covering. a plastic surgery technique involving removal of the outermost layer of skin. chemical peel chemabrasion.
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17. Peel
    • (v. t.) 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. • (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the ...
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18. Peel
    town on the west coast of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles, on Peel Bay at the mouth of the River Neb, which forms the harbour. On the west ...
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19. Peel
    Pull off outer covering, such as with bananas or oranges.
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20. PEEL
    Used to implement version of Emacs on PRIME computers.
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21. peel
    
    • British politician (1788-1850)
    • the rind of a fruit
    
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22. peel
    Converting a log into veneer by rotary cutting
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23. PEEL
    To remove the peels from vegetables or fruits.
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24. Peel
    to unpack or unwrap (bulk goods); to separate into smaller packages for retailing.
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25. Peel
    (tool) A `peel` is a shovel-like tool used by bakers to slide loaves of bread, pizzas, pastries, and other baked goods into and out of an oven.<ref name="Simmons"> --> It is usually made of wood, with a flat carrying surface (like a shovel`s blade) for holding the baked good and ...
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