Peeling
['piːlɪŋ] or ['pilɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peel
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Examples
- 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.
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