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Definition of Peel
Pronunciation: pēld | n. | 1. | A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. | | 1. | 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To plunder; to pillage; to rob. | | 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. | | 2. | To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. | | 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. | | 2. | To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down . | | n. | 1. | The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. |
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