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peel |
9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peel \Peel\, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peel \Peel\, n. The skin or rind; as the peel of an orange. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peel \Peel\, n. [OE. pel. Cf {Pile} a heap.] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep [Scot.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peel \Peel\, n. [F. pelle, L. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peel \Peel\, v. t. [Confused with peel to strip, but fr F. piller to pillage. See {Pill} to rob, {Pillage}.] To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peel \Peel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peeled}; p. pr & vb n. {Peeling}.] [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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: peel n : the rind of a fruit v 1: strip the skin off (fruit, for example) [syn: {skin}, {pare}] 2: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" [syn: {peel off}, {flake off}, {flake}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Peel, AR Zip code(s): 72668 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: PEEL Used to implement version of {Emacs} on {PRIME} computers.
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