PEELED
raw, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, bare-assed, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked
(adjective) (used informally) completely unclothed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
peeled (not comparable)
With the outermost layer or skin removed.
Verb
peeled
simple past tense and past participle of peel
Source: Wiktionary
PEEL
Peel, n. Etym: [OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.]
Definition: A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]
Peel, n. Etym: [F. pelle, L. pala.]
Definition: 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.
Peel, v. t. Etym: [Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to pillage. See Pill to rob, Pillage.]
Definition: To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton.
Peel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling.] Etym: [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. Fell skin). Cf. Peruke.]
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.
Peel, v. i.
Definition: 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.
Peel, n.
Definition: The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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