peel
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English pelen itself from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier, both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”).
VerbEdit
peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)
- (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
- Shakespeare:
- The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
- (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
- We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
- (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
- I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
- (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
- The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
- (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
- The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
- keep one's eyes peeled (i.e., with eyelids open)
- peelable
- peeler
TranslationsEdit
to remove skin
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to remove the outer layer
to come away, especially in flakes or strips
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NounEdit
peel (countable and uncountable, plural peels)
- (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
- (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
skin of a fruit
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cosmetic preparation
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Etymology 2Edit
Anglo-Norman and Old French pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin palus (“stake”). Doublet of pole.
NounEdit
peel (plural peels)
- (obsolete) A stake.
- (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
- (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Old French pele (compare modern pelle), from Latin pala, from the base of plangere (“fix, plant”).
NounEdit
peel (plural peels)
- A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
TranslationsEdit
spadelike implement for removing loaves from an oven
Etymology 4Edit
Origin unknown.
NounEdit
peel (plural peels)
- (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
- (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
VerbEdit
peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)
- (curling) To play a peel shot.
Etymology 5Edit
Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.
VerbEdit
peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)
- (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
Etymology 6Edit
Misspelling of peal.
VerbEdit
peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)
- Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
- 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,
- Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;
- 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,
- The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.
- 2006, Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place, Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, pages 230–231,
- As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .
- 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,
Etymology 7Edit
Old French piller (“pillage”).
VerbEdit
peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)
- (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
- Milton:
- But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.
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1645, James Howell, “England’s Tears, for the Present Wars, which for the Nature of the Quarrel, the Quality of the Strength, the Diversity of Battels, Skirmishes, Encounters, and Sieges, (Happened in so Short a Compasse of Time) Cannot be Parallel’d in Any Precedent Age”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]: Dodona’s Grove, or The Vocall Forrest. The Third Edition More Exact and Perfect than the Former; with the Addition of Two Other Tracts: viz. Englands Tears for the Present Wars. And The Pre-eminence of Parlements, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Printed by R. D. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, OCLC 931321630, page 189:
- O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]
- Milton: