Definition of peel

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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..

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Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..
Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection..
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A pillager.
Peel :: Peel (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange..
Orangeat :: Orangeat (n.) Candied orange peel; also, orangeade..
Peel :: Peel (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..
Decorticate :: Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull..
Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
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..
Enucleate :: Enucleate (v. t.) To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell..
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Bark :: Bark (v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.
Pill :: Pill (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
Pill :: Pill (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark..
Peeling :: Peeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pee.
Peelhouse :: Peelhouse (n.) See 1st Peel.
Desquamate :: Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases..
Rheeboc :: Rheeboc (n.) The peele.
Curacoa :: Curacoa (n.) A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao..
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