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peeling |
2 definitions found 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]: peeling adj : having the paint loose and peeling away "a dilapidated house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses"
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