Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Peel"
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) 1.7 (wn)
Peel
n 1: British politician (1788-1850) [syn: {Peel}, {Robert Peel},
{Sir Robert Peel}]
2: the rind of a fruit
v 1: strip the skin off ("pare apples") [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}]
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