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Look up: peel

  1. Peel
    A small tower; typically, a fortified house on the border
    Found on http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.

  2. peel
    [n] - British politician (1788-1850) 2. [n] - the rind of a fruit or vegetable
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Peel
    originally a palisaded court. Later a stone tower house
    Found on http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/glossary.

  4. PEEL
    Used to implement version of Emacs on PRIME computers.
    Found on

  5. Peel
    Peel noun [ Middle English pel . Confer Pile a heap.] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [ Scot.]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/42

  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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/42

  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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/42

  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 to deprive of hair, from pilus a hair; or perhaps partly from French peler to peel off the skin, perhaps from Latin pellis ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/42

  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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/42

  10. Peel
    Peel noun The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/42

  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 of a tree, etc. ... Origin: F. Peler to pull out the ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  12. peel
    skin noun the rind of a fruit or vegetable
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Peel
    Robert Peel noun British politician (1788-1850)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. peel
    flake verb come off in flakes or thin small pieces; `The paint in my house is peeling off`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. peel
    noun the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  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.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  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 bark peels easily or readily. • (n.) A small ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  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 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/35

  19. peel
    1. British politician (1788-1850)
    2. the rind of a fruit

    Found on

  20. peel
    Converting a log into veneer by rotary cutting
    Found on http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/glossary/vie

  21. PEEL
    To remove the peels from vegetables or fruits.
    Found on http://www.d.umn.edu/~alphanu/cookery/gl


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