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peel

Pronunciation: /piːl/

The English word “peel” has 19 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  3. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  4. To remove one's clothing.
  5. To move, separate (off or away).
  6. To play a peel shot.
  7. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  8. To plunder; to pillage, rob.

noun

  1. The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
  4. A stake.
  5. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  6. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  7. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  8. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  9. The blade of an oar.
  10. An equal or match; a draw.
  11. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Etymology

From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

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