| Peel (peel) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Peel |
| [OE. pel. Cf.
Pile a heap.] |
A small tower, fort, or castle; a
keep.
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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.
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To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
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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.
To strip or tear off; to remove by
stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree,
etc.
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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.
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The skin or rind; as, the
peel of an orange.
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