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Peel \Peel\, v. i.
1. 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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2. To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .
[nformal]
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Peel \Peel\ (p[=e]l), n. [OE. pel. Cf. {Pile} a heap.]
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]
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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.
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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.]
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But govern ill the nations under yoke,
Peeling their provinces. --Milton.
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Peel \Peel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peeled} (p[=e]ld); 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.
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The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
--Shak.
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2. 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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Peel \Peel\, n.
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
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