PEEL
\pˈiːl], \pˈiːl], \p_ˈiː_l]\
Definitions of PEEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
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British politician (1788-1850)
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strip the skin off; "pare apples"
By Princeton University
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come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
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British politician (1788-1850)
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strip the skin off; "pare apples"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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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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To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
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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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To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
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The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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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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To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
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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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To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
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The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To strip the outer covering from, as bark, rind, husk, etc.; to strip off.
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To come off or strip.
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Skin or rind.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small fortress.
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To strip off the skin or bark: to bare.
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To come off, as the skin.
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The skin, rind, or bark.
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A baker's wooden shovel: a fire-shovel.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
