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    peel
    [pēl]
    verb
    peel (verb) · peels (third person present) · peeled (past tense) · peeled (past participle) · peeling (present participle)
    1. remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable):
      "she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care"
    2. (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces:
      "the walls are peeling"
      Similar:
      flake (off)
      come off in layers/strips
      • (of an outer layer or covering) come off, especially in strips or small pieces:
        "paint was peeling from the shopfronts"
    noun
    peel (noun) · peels (plural noun) · pele (noun) · peles (plural noun)
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’.
    peel
    [pēl]
    noun
    peel (noun) · peels (plural noun) · pele (noun) · peles (plural noun)
    1. a flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven:
      "a wooden pizza peel"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Old French pele, from Latin pala, from the base of pangere ‘fasten’.
    peel
    [pēl]
    noun
    peel (noun) · peels (plural noun) · pele (noun) · peles (plural noun) · peel tower (noun) · peel towers (plural noun)
    1. a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland:
      "in 1326 orders were given for the peel of the castle to be repaired"
    Origin
    late Middle English (in sense ‘palisade or fence formed of stakes’): from Anglo-Norman French pel, peel, pele ‘stake, palisade’, from Latin palus ‘stake’. The current sense is probably short for synonymous peel-house.
    peel
    [pēl]
    verb
    croquet
    peel (verb) · peels (third person present) · peeled (past tense) · peeled (past participle) · peeling (present participle)
    1. send (another player's ball) through a wicket:
      "the better players are capable of peeling a ball through two or three wickets"
    Origin
    late 19th century: from the name of Walter H. Peel, founder of the All England Croquet Association, a leading exponent of the practice.
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    [ peel ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA verb (used with object) to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.: to peel an orange. to strip (the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.) from something: to peel paint from a car. Croquet. to cause (another player's ball) to go through a wicket.
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    peel1 /pil/ v. to strip (something) of its skin, rind, etc.:[~ + object] to peel and boil some potatoes. (of skin, paint, etc.) to come off in pieces:[no object] My skin peeled after the sunburn. to strip away from something:[~ + object] to peel paint from a car.
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    peel verb uk / piːl / us / piːl / peel verb (FOOD) Add to word list B2 [ T ] to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables: Peel, core, and chop the apples.
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