Hypertext Webster Gateway: "peeling"
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)
peeling
adj : having the paint loose and peeling away; "a dilapidated
house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses"
n : loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming
off in scales [syn: {desquamation}, {shedding}]
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