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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peel \Peel\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peel \Peel\, verb (used without an object) 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peel \Peel\, noun [OE. pel. Cf. {Pile} a heap.] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peel \Peel\, noun The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peel \Peel\, noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peel \Peel\, verb (used with an object) [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit) [syn: {skin}, {rind}]
2: British politician (1788-1850) [syn: {Robert Peel}, {Sir Robert Peel}]
3: the rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: {skin}]
verb
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}]
3: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: {undress}, {discase}, {uncase}, {unclothe}, {strip}, {strip down}, {disrobe}] [ant: {dress}, {dress}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "peel": abscind, acropolis, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, bark, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bob, bran, bridgehead, bunker, capsule, case, castle, chaff, citadel, clip, coat, coating, collop, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, covering, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, deal, decorticate, defoliate, denude, descale, desquamate, disk, dismember, disrobe, dock, donjon, draw and quarter, eliminate, enucleate, epicarp, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, excoriate, exfoliate, extinguish, extirpate, fasthold, fastness, feuille, film, flake off, flap, flay, foil, fold, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold, hull, husk, isolate, jacket, keep, knock off, lacerate, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lop, maim, mangle, martello, martello tower, membrane, mote, motte, mutilate, nip, palea, pane, panel, pare, patina, peel off, peel tower, peeling, pellicle, phellum, pick out, pick to pieces, pillbox, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pod, post, prune, pull apart, rasher, rath, rind, root out, rule out, safehold, safety glass, scale, scalp, scum, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, sheet, shell, shred, shuck, skin, slab, slat, slice, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, strong point, stronghold, table, tablet, take apart, take off, take out, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tower, tower of strength, truncate, uncovered, undress, veneer, wafer, ward, wipe out
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
PEEL Used to implement version of {Emacs} on {PRIME} computers.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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