- (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.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.) A small tower, fort or castle; a keep.
- (v.t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- (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.
- (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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