PEELS

Noun

peels

plural of peel

Verb

peels

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peel

Anagrams

• LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, sleep, speel

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