Peel
[piːl] or [pil]
Definition
(noun.) the rind of a fruit or vegetable.
(noun.) British politician (1788-1850).
Typist: Michael--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
(n.) 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.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Pare (by stripping or pulling), hull, shell.
v. n. Exfoliate, come off (as skin or rind), peel off, shell off.
n. Rind, skin.
Typed by Laverne
Definition
v.t. to strip off the skin or bark: to bare.—v.i. to come off as the skin: to lose the skin: (slang) to undress.—n. the skin rind or bark: (print.) a wooden pole with short cross-piece for carrying printed sheets to the poles on which they are to be dried: the wash or blade of an oar—not the loom: a mark (
) for cattle for persons who cannot write &c.—adj. Peeled stripped of skin rind or bark: plundered.—ns. Peel′er one who peels a plunderer; Peel′ing the act of stripping: that which is stripped off: (print.) the removing of the layers of a paper overlay to get a lighter impression.
v.t. to plunder: to pillage.
n. a small Border fortress.—Also Peel′-tow′er.
n. a baker's wooden shovel: a fire-shovel.
Editor: Vlad
Examples
- I've been lamed with orange-peel once, and I know orange-peel will be my death, or I'll be content to eat my own head, sir! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Huskisson were among those who were walking on the railway, when one of the engines was recklessly put in action, and propelled along the line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- However, he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop--that kind of thing, you know, if Peel stays in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Duke of Wellington, then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and many other prominent men were present. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The lime destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- That apple-peel is to be eaten by the pigs, Ben; if you eat it, I must give them your piece of pasty. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The skin, however, peeled off, and new skin replaced it without any damage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The man's face peeled off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So do I, said St. Clare, peeling his orange; I'm repenting of it all the time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Where the paint has yielded to age and exposure and is peeling off in flakes and patches, the effect is not happy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is done by cutting the film square, as seen in Fig. 210, and then peeling it off the glass, as seen at Fig. 211, and transferring it to another glass plate in reversed relation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Cut the peels of two lemons into fine pieces and add to the alcohol and oil of lemon. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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