Definition of peel

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Peel (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..

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Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel..
Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel..
Pill :: Pill (n.) The peel or skin.
Peel :: Peel (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..
Peeling :: Peeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pee.
Peeled :: Peeled (imp. & p. p.) of Pee.
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc..
Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection..
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
Zest :: Zest (n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc..
Unpeeled :: Unpeeled (a.) Not peeled.
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A pillager.
Shellbark :: Shellbark (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut..
Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..
Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Zest :: Zest (v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything..
Desquamate :: Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases..
Curacoa :: Curacoa (n.) A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao..
Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel..
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