peel

1. n. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To plunder; to pillage; to rob. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. n. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. Source: opted

8. n. the rind of a fruit or vegetable Source: wordnet

9. v. remove the skin from Source: wordnet

10. v. come off in flakes or thin small pieces Source: wordnet

11. v. get undressed Source: wordnet

12. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.] 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. To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton. 1. 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. The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands. Shak. 2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. 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. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. Source: webster

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